10 Apps & Sites That Bring Back the Joy of Reading

9. Give Me Something To Read

A sister site to Instapaper, Give Me Something To Read is a curated collection of the most interesting articles being saved by Instapaper users. The site is edited by Richard Dunlop-Walters, a Brit who specializes in outsourced customer support and editorial services for independent developers like Arment.

The site is similar in spirit to Longform.org and Longreads. The main difference is that it’s specific to Instapaper. The highlighted articles are drawn from the flow of things Instapaper users are reading, and if you find something you like there, you can only save it to Instapaper.

Give Me Something To Read doubles as the content-suggestion feature inside the Instapaper mobile app—just click the “Editors” button and you’ll see all of the recent selections from GMSTR, pre-formatted for reading in the app.

Last site: Longreads.

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Author: Wade Roush

Between 2007 and 2014, I was a staff editor for Xconomy in Boston and San Francisco. Since 2008 I've been writing a weekly opinion/review column called VOX: The Voice of Xperience. (From 2008 to 2013 the column was known as World Wide Wade.) I've been writing about science and technology professionally since 1994. Before joining Xconomy in 2007, I was a staff member at MIT’s Technology Review from 2001 to 2006, serving as senior editor, San Francisco bureau chief, and executive editor of TechnologyReview.com. Before that, I was the Boston bureau reporter for Science, managing editor of supercomputing publications at NASA Ames Research Center, and Web editor at e-book pioneer NuvoMedia. I have a B.A. in the history of science from Harvard College and a PhD in the history and social study of science and technology from MIT. I've published articles in Science, Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum, Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Technology and Culture, Alaska Airlines Magazine, and World Business, and I've been a guest of NPR, CNN, CNBC, NECN, WGBH and the PBS NewsHour. I'm a frequent conference participant and enjoy opportunities to moderate panel discussions and on-stage chats. My personal site: waderoush.com My social media coordinates: Twitter: @wroush Facebook: facebook.com/wade.roush LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/waderoush Google+ : google.com/+WadeRoush YouTube: youtube.com/wroush1967 Flickr: flickr.com/photos/wroush/ Pinterest: pinterest.com/waderoush/