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extends: post.liquid
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2012-05-08 09:54:23 +00:00
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title: my instapaper stats
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2017-07-09 12:18:22 +00:00
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date: 08 May 2012 11:33:00 +0200
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path: /:year/:month/:day/my-instapaper-stats
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2012-05-08 09:54:23 +00:00
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I am an actively user of the great [Instapaper](http://www.instapaper.com/)
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service. Instapaper is a great tool to save web articles for reading later.
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Even since I got my [Kindle 4](http://www.amazon.de/dp/B0051QVF7A/ref=tb_surl_kindle)
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back in December I let Instapaper sent each and every article I saved directly
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to it right in the morning. The first thing I do when I wakeup is starting the
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kindle to get the new issue so I can read it at breakfast.
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Before I had the Kindle I had to read all saved articles on the PC (or my
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Smartphone) where the reading experience really sucks for long articles. My
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workflow was much different and I deleted most read articles instead of marking
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them as "read". But since I use the Kindle for reading I always archive old
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articles.
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Back in February I started to get some statistics on how much I really read
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(and yes, every article saved to my Instapaper accout I actually read), so here
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is my nice graph:
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I started with 54 saved articles and I am now up to 234 articles. That makes
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180 new articles read in just 77 days (my graph starts on 21.02.).
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Most of the articles are coming from [Hacker News](http://news.ycombinator.com/)
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and my twitter stream (maybe I should start some more statistics on the topics
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and which language I read most)
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I use a simple script executed via cronjob to fetch the list of articles from
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Instapaper, but more on that later (I have to cleanup the script and then I can
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release it).
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P.S.:
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If you're wondering what the 3 lines on the bottom of the graph are: the green
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one is the "Starred"-line (currently at 11 articles), the blue one is the
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unread count (mostly between 0-5 articles per day) and the purple line is the
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"saved"-folder (8 articles, which contains non-article links and is now more or less
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superflous as I have a [Pinboard-Account](http://pinboard.in/u:badboy))
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