UPDATE: My "Best of 2008 Blog Posts & Essays" are now available via the iPhone, as well (yes, for free). Follow the instructions below, and add the "Read Later" bookmark for this html file.
A lot of people have contacted me about wanting to read my last book, Music 2.0, on the iPhone. Since a 7MB PDF will not be so hot to read in your email or within Safari, I have put up the book's html file on my typepad server (yes, I know, no images yet, sorry), and then used Instapaper's READ LATER function to convert the entire book to the Instapaper txt format which makes reading it very easy - much better than a pdf. And it's all free!
So this is what you need to do to read the free book on your iPhone (perfect for those long airplane trips since it actually works offline, too):
- Download the Instapaper app to your iPhone (or iTunes), via the app store or via the Instapaper site. Note that there is a free version and a paid version ($ 9.99 USD, which is well worth it because of the cool tilt scrolling!), but both work very well
- Install the app, sign up / register and - on your computer this will be easier -, go to Music 2.0 book html page, here, and / or the Best of 2008 Book html file, and add it to the Instapaper +ADD box. It will now save the file and sync it with your iPhone the next time you open the Instapaper app and update it.
Very cool. I think. You?
Great - many thanks Gerd
Posted by: Oisin Lunny | September 17, 2008 at 12:06 PM