I absolutely love Give Me Something To Read and Longform.org! There are a lot of great articles that didn't make it to this list, so check out the archives on both websites — the articles are (mostly) timeless.

Instapaper and GMSTR/Longform.org are streets ahead of casual games like Angry Birds for my commute.

There's also Longreads.com

Am I correct in thinking that this is a spin-off from instapaper.com (they take popular saved pages from instapaper to create the content for gmstr.com )? I cann't recommend Instapaper highly enough as a tool for saving web-articles and sending them to my Kindle for off-line reading.

That's what the subtitle says.

Is there something similar for german sites?

Good question. For my part, I'd be interested in Spanish and French equivalents.

Excellent selection of quality articles.