Death to Pocket, long live Instapaper. At least on my ereader.
A Welcome Update
One of the things I really liked about the Kobo ereaders, was the built in support for the Pocket read later service. But, Mozilla had other ideas. Killing Pocket. If you used it, sucks. If you payed for it, here’s your money back.
This left the Pocket client on my Kobo, pretty useless. Until recently.
Kobo released an update last week, removing the Pocket client, and replacing it with an Instapaper client.
It works exactly the same as the old Pocket client did. That is to say, basic, but very well.
I will say, one thing I really like about Instapaper over Pocket. Is the complete lack of a discover feed1. That’s across the entire service. It’s filled with only what I saved, not the click bait rage filled takes six paragraphs of missing the point political ranting just to tell me if the food is good at a restaurant2.
Instapaper does have a premium tier3, but you don’t need it for the Kobo client to work. Yay!
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The Kobo Pocket client never had it. But the iOS and website sure as hell did. ↩︎
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Yes I actually found an article like that when looking up how the food was at an odd restaurant. Having to waste time scrolling past a long kool-aid filled political rant just to tell me that the food was, fine. Not bad, but nothing special. Thanks SEO slop. I don’t care about Y leader, I just want to know if the burger is worth the $6. ↩︎
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An expensive one at that, at $60/year or $6/month. ↩︎