The Read It Later blog has a every interesting article on time shifted reading based on their app statistics. Most people discover and save articles through out the day, but saving their reading until evening.

the biggest time for reading: personal prime time. This is generally the most relaxing time of day. After a long day, work is done, dinner is resting in your belly and there is nothing left to do but put your feet up and relax. This time slot is the same one coveted by television. When the majority of people are consuming content it seems perfectly natural that people would use this time to do their reading as well.

It also notes that iPad owners generally read on their iPad – even if they discover things on their computer or mobile. Worth a read.

http://readitlaterlist.com/blog/2011/01/is-mobile-affecting-when-we-read/

Version 2.0 of My Newspaper for iPad is ready in the App Store with a whole lot of improvements!

• New UI
• New Google Reader sync engine
• Google Reader folders can make sections in your newspaper
• New page rendering engine
• Image caching for the first image in an article
• Change in sort order works instantly
• You can select a feed or folder to view
• View unread articles only
• View starred articles
• View articles for a certain day
• Removed first page
• Twitter and URL shortening
• Added Google Reader ‘share’ and ‘like’ support
• All Google Reader actions (mark read, star, like, share) work offline
• Smoother animations

Have fun with it and I look forward to hearing what you think. As always – we LOVE reviews in the App Store! It is the best way to get the word out!

I have just submitted version 1.6 of My Newspaper to the App Store for review. This is a maintenance release with the following fixes:
1) iOS4.2 compatibility
2) ‘Send To’ functions like Instapaper / Email / etc. will now act on any web page you may be browsing (not just the feed page)
3) Small bug fixes to help with stability

A special thanks to all our Beta testers who have been pounding on it. I hope it is approved quickly and available in the App Store before iOS4.2 is released!

Version 2.0 of My Newspaper is almost ready with a ton of new features based on your feedback. It will be a very big update so thank you for your patience – it will be rewarded!

My Newspaper is now 3 months old and we would love your feedback by answering 8 simple questions to help us keep improving the App.

http://bit.ly/9jd3Zi

Every response matters to us so if you can spare 3 minutes, it would really help us out!

Jeff Bonnes and Delia Timms
The My Newspaper for iPad Team

We get emails all the time from people with great suggestions. Usually they go something like ‘It would be great if My Newspaper could do…’ – which we love! We just wanted to let you all know:
a) what we are working on and;
b) when you can expect some highly requested features.

Current Development Roadmap

Version 2.0 (development currently in progress)
1) Sections based on Google Reader folders
2) Advanced fetching options including getting more than 250 articles per fetch
3) Google Reader ‘liking’ and ‘sharing’

Version 2.1
1) Twitter and Facebook sharing
2) Caching of images for off-line reading

Version 3.0
This will be a big version as we will re-write the engine that renders articles to provide:
1) Landscape mode
2) Showing only unread / starred items
3) A feed setup screen where you can choose feeds to ignore from Google Reader

We will also be adding some smaller enhancements along the way like:
- Greying out read articles
- More sorting options
- More gestures for easier navigation
- Saving images
- Automatically marking articles read on page turn
- Dimmer for the screen
- Selected feeds in ‘sidebars’ to keep conversations together

And we are ALWAYS working on making My Newspaper faster and more stable!

Let us know if there is anything else you would like to see at feedback@mynewspaperforipad.com and thanks for your support!

Our biggest update so far with a ton of new features!
1. Choosing your own fonts / colors
2. Instapaper and Read It Later support (works off-line)
3. Emailing links and articles
4. Instapaper mobilizer viewer
5. ‘Open in Safari’ link
6. Startup bug fixes
7. Improved performance
8. UI improvements to make it more consistent with Apple guidelines
9. Auto-delete of old newspapers
10. In-app help screens

Go get it now and we’ll keep working on version 2.0!

Thanks everyone who offered to help test version 1.5. We have as many as we can handle! I couldn’t accept everyone who offered, so I’ll email everyone in the next day or two with an update. I am hoping that we can test for one week and get a final 1.5 version submitted for app store approval next week! I am very excited so see how everyone uses the new features!

Our next version will be all about adding ‘Sections’ based on your Google Reader folders as well as some more startup / fetching options and Google ‘liking’ and sharing. Twitter and Facebook will be soon as well!

Just putting finishing touches on version 1.5. It is a big version with lots of small improvements. It includes:
1) Choosing your own fonts / colors
2) Instapaper and Read It Later Support (works off-line)
3) Emailing links and Articles
4) Instapaper Mobilizer Viewer
5) ‘Open in Safari’ link
6) Startup Bug Fixes
7) Improved Performance
UI Improvements
9) Auto-delete of old newspapers

We would like to get this in the hands of some of our wonderful customers to make sure it is working as expected before final submission to the App Store. To join our Beta program, just send your UDID to support@mynewspaperforipad.com with a list of the new features that you think you will use. Here are the detailed instructions (courtesy of interfence). We will send you two files to drag into iTunes. This will update your ‘My Newspaper’ app on your iPad to the new beta version next time you sync. Just use it until August 19th, and email us at support@mynewspaperforipad.com if anything goes wrong or is unexpected!

Once the new version is approved, the beta version will be replaced with the update and you will no longer be a beat tester and will ge future upgrade as normal.

Please let us know if you are interested – we could use your help!