Loading Content from the Web

The easiest way to listen to a Web page is to use our built-in Browser. Click on the “+” button from the Home screen, and select Web Browser. The browser will pop up, and you can type in or paste an URL. You have two options to save the Web page: “Smart Save” and “Save All”. Smart Save tries to intelligently strip out the extraneous stuff on the Web page like menus and ads. Smart Save does not work on Web sites that requires you to log in and occasionally it could make mistakes. The other option is “Save All”, which saves all the text that appear on the Web page and works on Web sites that require logging-in. If you like, you can use the Editor to remove the text you don’t want.

If you rather use Safari, or another browser on your device, you can create a special bookmark to link it to Voice Dream. When you want to listen to a page, you can tap on the special bookmark, which would open Voice Dream and place the current web page in Voice Dream’s browser. At that point, you can do a “Smart Save” or “Save All” to extract text.

To create the special bookmark:

• 1. Go to any Web page and tap on “Action” and “Bookmark” to create a bookmark. Put it in Favorites.
• 2. Open up Bookmarks and find the page that contains the bookmark you just created. Tap on Edit.
• 3. Tap the bookmark you just created. In the first field, give it a new name: “Open in Voice Dream”.
• 4. In the second URL field, paste in the following:
  javascript:window.location=”com.voicedream.reader://open?url=”+window.location

You can also use a bookmarking service. If you already use Pocket (formerly Read It Later) or Instapaper, enter your user ID and password in Settings, and press the Refresh button in the Home screen to download unread articles.

For both services, Voice Dream Reader downloads “Unread” articles, and you can download the most recent 50, 100, 200, or 500 articles. If you have older articles on your device, they’ll be deleted from Voice Dream Reader (not from Pocket or Instapaper).

After you delete an article in Voice Dream Reader, the next refresh will move these articles to Archive in the cloud. Currently, Pocket supports the reverse: when you archive an article in Pocket, it will be deleted in Voice Dream Reader. This option can be turned on or off under Settings-Pocket.

Finally, you can Reset the connection in Settings-Pocket or Instapaper. Resetting will delete all articles in Voice Dream Reader and you’ll need to Refresh to download all the articles again.