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I use Pocket for the sole reason that there is an interface on my ereader to sync pocket articles. (Kobo Aura HD) If there was the same for Instapaper I would
by anotherevan 10y ago
I use Pocket for the sole reason that there is an interface on my ereader to sync pocket articles. (Kobo Aura HD)
If there was the same for Instapaper I would jump. I find it generally does a much better parsing job. Pocket occasionally completely borks on an article and will just redirect you to the original. Other times it often misses bullet point lists (probably thinks they are navigation). Whenever this happens Instapaper almost always handles the same article with aplomb.
Aside: Let me take the opportunity to plug a little app I wrote called Erudite[1] that can download articles from Instapaper and Pocket, convert them to an appropriate format such as EPUB or MOBI, and add them to your Calibre ebook library. It is a command-line driven tool.
[1] http://evanmclean.com/software/erudite/ http://evanmclean.com/software/erudite/ (Note that some of the documentation on the web-site is out of date. Doesn't mention Pocket and still mentions Readability, but the doco in the download is up to date.)
- ycombinete 10y agoWow, that's actually a very neat little app. I'll be using it for sure, since I switch between a laptop, phone, a tablet, and an old 6" kindle. I found that Instapaper occasionally stripped out images when they should have been left in the article. I guess a lot of it comes down to how consistently the pages themselves are coded.