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Instapaper Rakuten Kobo Integration

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Oh hallelujah. I used Pocket solely as a means to get long articles onto my Kobo so I could read them when I had idle time, and was seriously bummed that they canceled it. I scripted up some stuff to pull new links from my GoodLinks app, convert them to PDFs, and upload them to Dropbox so they’d automatically sync to my reader, but it was janky and the UI for selecting and reading articles that way on my Kobo isn’t nearly as nice as the Pocket UI there.

I’m so glad this is happening. Guess I’m an Instapaper user now.

Its probably worth Th 60 bucks not to have to set anything up but I had Walabag running once, I think it was this. https://gitlab.com/anarcat/wallabako/

I find myself mainly using https://send.djazz.se/ now tho

Wait... 60 dollars per year for a third party solution just to send articles to your ereader? I'd argue that's something that should come with the reader.

My happiness about this strongly correlates to how much it'll cost me. No, I'd be less than thrilled if it were $60.

Great news! I feel like device manufacturers always tried to control the whole stack vertically and users were left to their own devices ;) to get desired workflows and integrations working.

I was actually a paying user at Instapaper, then Pocket, then back at Instapaper, and finally (and currently) Readwise Reader. Not sure this will drag me back over the fence. At least not yet :)

That’s really nice to hear.

I just bought a Kobo Libra Colour, knowing up front that the widely mentioned Pocket support now was a dud.

As such I had no expectations for such functionality, but maybe I’ll get it anyway.

Thanks to everyone involved. It’s appreciated!

Between the two I honestly did not expect Instapaper surviving longer

Mozilla seemed really determined to kill Pocket, once they had made the decision. I saw multiple other companies reaching out about trying to acquire/save Pocket, but as far as we can tell, nothing came out of it.

Seems rather dickish, given that they acquired the company in the first place. Not what I would expect of an "open source" company.

I hope if the Pocket guys ever quit Mozilla or are laid off, they'll be in a position to speak about what happened.

Brilliant news! I really like my Kobo Libra, it feels like the idea eReader format.

Is there a good open source version of instapaper? I need to give Wallabag another look - has anyone used it recently?

Personally, I am and always was very put off by Wallabag's design. It seems permanently stuck in the 2010s default Bootstrap era.

There was and technically still is Omnivore (https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore), but it got aquired by ElevenLabs last year and the official instance got shut down. Shiori (https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori) also comes to mind, but I think that's about it.

As for closed source solutions, I'd say Readwise Reader (https://readwise.io/read) actually innovated a little bit for the first time in over a decade by catering to power users, but I didn't use it often enough to justify a perpetual $10/month subscription (no free tier what so ever).

Nowadays I just use Obsidian's web clipper.

Never heard of Wallabag but found a video of the web client here: https://wallabag.it/en/

All I'd really want to do to that design is lay off the drop shadows

I am using Raindrop and it seems to work for me.

Maybe https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore. And there are several bookmark managers like https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep, https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden, https://github.com/goniszewski/grimoire.

Omnivore was great but it was bought by Eleven Labs (https://elevenlabs.io/blog/omnivore-joins-elevenlabs) and it looks pretty inactive.

A fairly new alternative to Wallabag is Readeck. Easily self hosted and comes with great API integration. And fully FOSS.

https://www.readeck.org

Wallabag 2.6.1 (released earlier this year) has improved stability, better article parsing via Readability, and supports EPUB/PDF export, though self-hosting still requires some technical know-how.

I tried to install it recently to a linux container running on proxmox. I gave up after half an hour because it requires a ton of PHP dependencies and there's no instructions or script provided to install them. I guess if you use the docker version it should be easier, but that wasn't an option for me.

I tried a year ago and then stopped after few days because it couldn't save properly reddit pages (new design or old design, does not matter).

From my experience it had the exact same behavior as the "Reading mode" feature from browsers. Which was not great overall.

No clue if there is something better than that though.

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