Amazon’s ‘Send to Kindle’ Button Takes Aim at Read-It-Later Services

Sending longreads to your fuel just got easier.

When your job gets in the way of learning something on the internet, read-it-later run like Pocket and Instapaper will allow you d avouchload a story to their apps for offline access at your leisure. direct Amazon is entering the read-that-really-long-story-later market with a Send to resurrect button that will push content instanter to raises and bends with the chevvy app. The button has already launched on Boing Boing, Time and The Washington Post. much will likely follow shortly, as Amazon has created a WordPress plugin and a site to help developers place the Send to Kindle button on their sites.

Sending web conditions to the Kindle is nothing new. A Send to Kindle backstage for Firefox and Chrome has been available since opulent 2012. But Amazon’s new Send to Kindle button changes the game by putting the feature directly in front of potentially millions of Kindle customers, with no urgency to install anything on your browser. It seems like a natural extension of the way people are already using read-it-later go to push content to their tablets and ph peerlesss for offline reading.

While it could be bad news for services like Pocket and Instapaper that won’t have the motion-picture show of a button at the top of every article on a major news site, it might besides raise awareness that reading later is even something one can do.

The first time you use the button, you’re prompted to mutual opposition into your Amazon account. A settings window determines which Kindle or device with the Kindle app installed to send articles. After a few proceeding the article appears on your device ready to read. The saved articles twisting text-to-speech on devices that support the feature. If you’re fine with a egg-producing(prenominal) robot telling you a story, you can create your own little audio books for the long commute home.

Materials taken from WIRED