Instapaper Rakuten Kobo Integration (blog.instapaper.com)

Between the two I honestly did not expect Instapaper surviving longer

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 :)

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

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.

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

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!