Kobo Ereaders Are Swapping Out Pocket For Instapaper

Rakuten and Instapaper have announced a caller integration that lets you entree saved articles connected Kobo ereaders. The caller characteristic replaces a akin 1 Rakuten utilized to connection for Pocket users, which it was forced to switch aft Mozilla decided to unopen down nan read-it-later work successful May 2025.

Instapaper connected Kobo devices useful astir identically to nan measurement Pocket did previously. With your Instapaper relationship linked, you tin entree immoderate article you've saved to your library. Articles tin beryllium downloaded and accessed offline, and you tin like, delete aliases archive them arsenic you spot fit. As personification who relied connected nan Pocket integration to activity my measurement done a ridiculous backlog of saved articles, Instapaper makes a tin replacement. Really, nan only point nan characteristic is missing astatine this constituent is support for handwritten annotations connected Kobos pinch styluses, for illustration nan Kobo Libra Colour aliases Kobo Elipsa 2E.

Mozilla made nan determination to upwind down Pocket and a fewer different smaller products to conserve clip and resources that mightiness beryllium amended spent connected Firefox. Instapaper itself was successful diminution pursuing an acquisition by Pinterest successful 2016, until nan developers moving connected nan work bought it back and took Instapaper independent successful 2018.

Pocket and Instapaper aren't one-to-one replacements for each different (Instapaper seems overmuch little concerned pinch preserving images, for example) but they're close. For anyone who relied connected Pocket, Rakuten replacing nan work pinch Instapaper is simply a best-case scenario. The caller Instapaper integration is disposable globally connected each presently supported Kobo ereaders.