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You can connect Pocket to Readwise Reader ( readwise.io/reader ), via Pocket's API, which will let Reader view all the tags, metadata, highlights, etc.

Even if you didn't want to use Reader, you could then export from inside Reader and Readwise to pull out CSVs of all of your articles+highlights -- no subscription required.

(full disclosure: founder of Readwise here, obviously if you want to try our Reader app that would be sweet, but at least wanted to offer this way to get a more complete export)

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So your app will also import the archived copies from Pocket? It's mainly about importing archived content from links that might now be dead.

No, unfortunately their API doesn't return the actual html content of the saved articles :( just the urls and all the metadata: highlights, title, author, image, tags, location, etc

I really wish they did :/ some things aren't even on the internet archive and are probably saved uniquely on Pocket's servers. Would be sweet if they could open source that data.

Would be awesome if your app could scrape the actual pocket pages.

I'd sign up for a paid version of yours if it had that feature. But I'm not sure how many others premium users would do the same.

something these other apps could do is run dead URLs through archive.org and nab it that way.

Not 100% foolproof but I'm willing to bet it will work for the majority of links

Love your app. Any plans to enable reading of Readwise Reader articles on eReaders like Kobo? I’m thinking of something akin to how Pocket’s integration with Kobo.

Thanks! Kobo is hard because it's proprietary software, but we would like to...

However, there is a wide range of eink devices that already exist that run Android (check out Boox, Meebook, Daylight, though there are many others) -- we've optimized Reader to run great on these devices :)

It would be really amazing if you could attempt for those who've connected Pocket to pull the data of all those saved files etc into Reader. I realize it wouldn't necessarily work as some stuff is just gone, but it would be a nice feature for those of us moving over.

Thanks. Will try. Currently Pocket seems to be overloaded, but hopefully it recovers in the 30 trial days.

While your app seems nice on first glance the 10$ a month is not a small amount for non americans. 10$ a year I could stomach.

Cool! The import should auto-retry, but in case something gets snagged there you can also always do `cmd+k -> pocket` to retrigger a full import.

Totally hear you on price.. Reader is built for people who spend a lot of time reading and can justify it (and the sub also comes with access to our Readwise product too).

We also have a 50% off discount for students as well folks in countries with depressed currencies (eg India, South American countries, etc) which might help.

We try our best, but are also bootstrapped and have to charge enough to keep the company sustainable!

I can't even connect to Pocket.

seems to work better with https://fabiensanglard.net/rss.xml than most readers although it still gets 403s fetching images but I'll still give it a run to see how it works for me.

I think the image urls provided in the RSS feed are just broken, eg this one is linked in the latest article:

https://fabiensanglard.net/2168/french.webp

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