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Tangentially related, but the reader view of a page seems ideally suited for archival bookmarking. It's unfortunate that so many sites seem to be intentionally breaking the reader view functionality in order to maximize newsletter subscriptions and eyeball monetization. Recipe sites are the worst offenders IMO.

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Pocket seems to have luck where other reader views and outlining services fail, and you can set up IFTTT to download pocket articles as html files to dropbox, but that's certainly not automatic and completely out of your way. I would have preferred it to archive as a plain text document but I couldn't figure it out through IFTTT.

Are the downloaded pages in original or Pocket/Reader view?

You can export (with some pain) your Pocket list. Fetching sources from there is ... somewhat painful. I've done it a couple of times, but it's not something I relish doing.

Pocket Premium stores the web pages on a server. If there was a way to batch export and access them locally, I'd gladly pay for it.

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