Email This
Remove clutter from web pages and save ad-free articles to your email inbox for later reading. Email This is a simpler alternative to bookmark and "read later" tools like Pocket, Instapaper & Readability.
What is Email This?
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Summary
Found a great article but don’t have time to read it now? Save the web page to your email and read it later. Email This removes ads, distractions and crufty sidebars from a web page and sends a cleaned-up, readable view of the page to your email inbox. You can then open up your email client and read your saved articles whenever you want.
Email This is a simpler alternative to bookmark and "read later" tools like Pocket, Instapaper & Readability.
There is no need to signup for a new service or install any additional applications to read your saved bookmarks. You can even access your saved bookmarks offline on your mobile phones and tablets.
Features & Benefits
- Save any web page or article with one-click
- Save the current page with a keyboard shortcut
- [NEW] Add notes and keywords to your saved pages. This helps you search for your content faster
- [NEW] Include PDF snapshot of all web pages
- Right-click and save links without opening them. We will open up that link, extract useful content from it and send you an email with its contents.
- [NEW] Save PDFs, DOCX files, PPTs, Excel sheets and images as email attachments
- Also works from Android & iOS devices. Simply use the "Share" button on your phone to send an email with a link to [email protected]. EmailThis will reply with the contents of that link.
- Completely free to use.
User reviews
User reviews summary
Pros
- Allows users to save bookmarks and send content to themselves effectively
- Simplifies keeping a clean desktop by saving page icons for later reference
- The addition of a save-as-PDF feature for offline content storage
- Useful for students and professionals to assemble libraries of information
- Provides ad-free copies of articles directly to the user's email
Cons
- Service is often unreliable and stops working for periods of time
- Developer support is lacking or unresponsive
- Problems with registration and managing account details
- PDF feature delivers poor results, rendering unreadable outputs
- Expensive compared to other web services with higher utility
Most mentioned
- Unreliable service and downtimes
- Developer unresponsiveness
- Useful for organization and saving content
- PDF capture feature issues
- Cost and value for money
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Safety
Risk impact
Email This is very risky to use and it requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Avoid installing this add-on unless you absolutely trust this publisher.
Risk likelihood
Email This has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.