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[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 36 points 4 days ago (25 children)

Has anyone ever used pocket except by accident?

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

Is there a better free read later app?

[–] stray@pawb.social 18 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] stray@pawb.social 0 points 4 days 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.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

"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.

[–] tehmics@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

That's literally what tabs are on mobile browsers

[–] stray@pawb.social 1 points 4 days 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.

[–] meekah@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] stray@pawb.social 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] redshift@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] stray@pawb.social 0 points 3 days 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.

[–] idkicarus@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] detun3d@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago
[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 4 days 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.

[–] krash@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago

Try readdeck or shiori (both self hostable)

[–] ominouslemon@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

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

[–] AmazingWizard@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 days ago

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

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