Sending a link to Instapaper FROM a Kindle

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Say you are surfing using the Kindle 3's actually-pretty-good web browser, and you want to read something later, or perhaps the page contains video or something else that the Kindle can't display.

How could you send a link to your Instapaper account FROM your Kindle (3)?

The browser has bookmarks but I don't know how to get Instapaper's bookmarklet in to there since it's JavaScript, or even if that would work.

Best Answer

I have a way to send links to Instapaper FROM my Kindle, based on a tip I read here: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1315115#post1315115.

1) When you're on a page you want to add to Instapaper, using the "Enter URL" option on your Kindle, cursor to the beginning of the address, and type in "tinyurl.com/create.php?url=" (it's short enough to memorize so you can do it quickly). You now have the address you added AND the page address in the URL box together. Press "Enter" to take you to the tinyurl.com URL-shortening page.

2) Assign each page a name following some system you make up using VERY SHORT names that you can REMEMBER (such as "jan0120111" for the first file you want to send on Jan 1, 2011). You might want to put a random letter in there somewhere to make it more likely no one else will be using your filenames!

3) Go to your email account on your Kindle, in which you've already set up a contact for the long, weird email address of your Instapaper account.

4) Send an email to that address, in the body of which you've typed the shortened name you've just assigned to the page you wanted to send.

The page will be added to your Instapaper account. It's hardly a streamlined, one-click solution, but it does work and doesn't take too long.