Readplace

Paste One Link, Save Every Article on the Page

Summary (TL;DR)

Readplace now imports links from one page. Open your queue, hit Import, and switch to the "Paste a link" tab. Drop in a newsletter issue or any page that lists articles. Readplace loads the page and lists every outbound link, each one checked by default. Untick what you skip, then click Import. The articles appear as cards right away and fill in their titles and excerpts within seconds. One page can hold up to 2,000 links, and the same screen still takes a file upload too.

A good newsletter is a list of other people's pages, and the work of reading it is the work of opening each one. You mean to read maybe half. So you click the first link, wait for it to load, save it, then go back and do the same thing for the next one. Twenty links turn into twenty round trips.

Readplace now collapses all of that into one paste.

Paste the page, pick the links

Open your queue and find the Import button next to the save bar, then switch to the "Paste a link" tab. Drop in the address of a newsletter issue, a blogroll, or any page that lists articles. Readplace loads that page and reads out every link on it that points somewhere else.

You get a plain, checkable list, and every link starts ticked.

Untick the ones you want to skip, then click Import. Readplace keeps only the outbound links, drops the repeats, and ignores the page's own address, so what you see is the set of articles worth saving rather than the page's navigation and footer.

Your cards show up at once

The cards appear the moment you import, and each one starts with nothing but the site name. Over the next few seconds the title, the excerpt, and the full reading copy fill in as Readplace reads each page in turn, so the list populates in front of you instead of leaving you on a spinner.

The same import screen still takes a file. If you have an HTML or JSON export from an old read-it-later app, upload it and pick from the exact same checkable list you'd get from a pasted link. Both paths end in the same place, with the articles you chose sitting in your queue.

Built for newsletter readers

Readplace pulls up to 2,000 links from one page. It caps the download at 5 MiB and gives up after 10 seconds if the site stalls, so a slow or oversized page fails fast instead of hanging the whole import behind it. Past those limits, email readplace+migrate@readplace.com and I'll lift the cap by hand.

People who read a lot of newsletters get the most out of this. A weekly roundup of 20 links turns into one paste and a couple of unticks, and the same move works for a link blog or a "further reading" list you already read straight from the source.

Try it on this week's newsletter

Open the newsletter sitting in your inbox right now. Copy the link to its web version, open your Readplace queue, and paste it into the Import box. Pick the few pieces you actually mean to read, and let the rest go.

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