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Robert Kevin Rose (born 1977) is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Revision3, Digg, Pownce, and Milk. He also served as production assistant and co-host at TechTV's The Screen Savers. From 2012 to 2015, he was a venture partner at GV.

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[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago

Has anyone ever used pocket except by accident?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Is there a better free read later app?

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

I'm just not sure what a read later app is even for. Can't you just leave the tab open?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

The internet is not always available for at least some people.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

You'd need the internet to sync with Pocket on another device. If you need the page on the same device, you can save it as a PDF.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The main idea is that you can access it regardless of which device you're currently using. Like saving an article you see when you're on your PC for when you're about to leave so you can read it on your phone while on the train

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You can do that just with Firefox's syncing feature though. You don't even have to save it intentionally; so long as you're logged in on both devices it'll be listed in your history and/or open tabs.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Not on devices without Firefox. Pocket is great for sending articles to read on my Kindle, for example.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

That is useful, but I see it's a third-party feature. I was able to find a "send to Kindle" page on Amazon that would allow the sending of a page as a PDF file.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

"Why not just slow down your device?"

Tabs aren't meant as bookmarks. Read later is for saving anything to any amount of time, and it doesn't take up responses of your system, is searchable, has tags, reading view etc. Your comment is grandma with dementia level of tech illiteracy.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That's literally what tabs are on mobile browsers

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

You'd need the PC equivalent of a grandma with dementia for it to struggle running Firefox. Anecdotally, I game with my tab collection regularly with no issues, but here's a more scientific test: https://www.howtogeek.com/how-many-tabs-does-it-take-to-slow-down-your-browser/

But even in that case, just bookmark, save, and/or archive the pages in question? It doesn't make sense for them to maintain servers and code on a service so easily replicated by the browser itself.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Try readdeck or shiori (both self hostable)

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Instapaper has a free plan. Personally, I moved away from Instapaper and use the extension MarkDownload to save pages as Markdown and import that into Obsidian.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Instapaper is nice and probably where I'll end up. Others have suggested Wallabag to me which has a less than 1€/month plan.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I've switched to Raindrop.io since hearing about Pocket shutting down, it seems cool!

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Shiori is a single binary you can run on your desktop or host on a server. I use it all the time.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Yes, many times. For a while I tried to use it as a read later for articles. But I never managed to actually remember to go back and read later the things I saved. I honestly think it's a useful tool. You can save articles offline to read later.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

So I had no idea you could use it to read offline. But I remember saving webpages to read later back in the 00s. I remember you could even choose how many links deep you wanted to save. Is this really no longer available?

Actually I like Offpunk for this kind of functionality, but that's not very mainstream.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Well sure you can save web pages. Pocket was a manager for that.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I love Pocket! However, as what most people mentioned, there are too many articles to keep up. I have years worth of backlog.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I never view it as a "to do list of must reads" but as just another feed but curated really good stuff.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

not even by accident, lol

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

yep, I used to save articles on pocket for my study so I could read it later.

After writing, I'd need to cite all the statements in my paper, pocket provided an easy list to reference.

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