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