diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/images/news/instapaper.png b/src/calibre/gui2/images/news/instapaper.png
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diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py
index 3403ba13c3..1ac26c391f 100644
--- a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py
+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ recipe_modules = ['recipe_' + r for r in (
            'lamujerdemivida', 'soldiers', 'theonion', 'news_times',
            'el_universal', 'mediapart', 'wikinews_en', 'ecogeek', 'daily_mail',
            'new_york_review_of_books_no_sub', 'politico', 'adventuregamers',
-           'mondedurable',
+           'mondedurable', 'instapaper',
           )]
 
 import re, imp, inspect, time, os
diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_instapaper.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_instapaper.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2082bce759
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_instapaper.py
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env  python
+
+__license__   = 'GPL v3'
+__copyright__ = '2009, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
+'''
+www.instapaper.com
+'''
+
+from calibre import strftime
+from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
+
+class Instapaper(BasicNewsRecipe):
+    title                 = 'Instapaper.com'
+    __author__            = 'Darko Miletic'
+    description           = 'Personalized news feeds. Go to instapaper.com to setup up your news.'    
+    publisher             = 'Instapaper.com'
+    category              = 'news, custom' 
+    oldest_article        = 7
+    max_articles_per_feed = 100
+    no_stylesheets        = True
+    use_embedded_content  = False
+    remove_javascript     = True
+    needs_subscription    = True 
+    INDEX                 = u'http://www.instapaper.com'
+    LOGIN                 = INDEX + u'/user/login'
+    
+    html2lrf_options = [
+                          '--comment', description
+                        , '--category', category
+                        , '--publisher', publisher
+                        ]
+    
+    html2epub_options = 'publisher="' + publisher + '"\ncomments="' + description + '"\ntags="' + category + '"\noverride_css=" p {text-indent: 0em; margin-top: 0em; margin-bottom: 0.5em} img {margin-top: 0em; margin-bottom: 0.4em}"' 
+
+    feeds = [
+              (u'Unread articles' , INDEX + u'/u'      )
+             ,(u'Starred articles', INDEX + u'/starred')
+            ]
+
+    def get_browser(self):
+        br = BasicNewsRecipe.get_browser()
+        if self.username is not None:
+            br.open(self.LOGIN)
+            br.select_form(nr=0)
+            br['username'] = self.username
+            if self.password is not None:
+               br['password'] = self.password
+            br.submit()
+        return br
+    
+    def parse_index(self):
+        totalfeeds = []
+        lfeeds = self.get_feeds()
+        for feedobj in lfeeds:
+            feedtitle, feedurl = feedobj
+            self.report_progress(0, _('Fetching feed')+' %s...'%(feedtitle if feedtitle else feedurl))
+            articles = []
+            soup = self.index_to_soup(feedurl)
+            for item in soup.findAll('div', attrs={'class':'titleRow'}):
+                description = self.tag_to_string(item.div)
+                atag = item.a
+                if atag and atag.has_key('href'):
+                    url         = self.INDEX + atag['href'] + '/text'
+                    title       = self.tag_to_string(atag)
+                    date        = strftime(self.timefmt)
+                    articles.append({
+                                      'title'      :title
+                                     ,'date'       :date
+                                     ,'url'        :url
+                                     ,'description':description
+                                    })
+            totalfeeds.append((feedtitle, articles))
+        return totalfeeds
+