RIP Pocket, long live Readwise Reader / what else are folks switching to?

Akrasia
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In case you missed the sad news from Pocket:

So I wanted to start a thread on alternatives. We started discussing this in the Discord and I’ll make sure all the ideas there get copied here.

The obvious one, since there’s a Beeminder integration for it, is Readwise Reader, which you can read about on the blog thanks to @adamwolf: Beeminder ♥ Readwise Reader | Beeminder Blog

Or check out the comprehensive documentation for the integration, thanks to @shanaqui: Readwise Reader - Beeminder Help

Apparently it has good text-to-speech and AI summaries.

And maybe Instapaper is back in full swing? Sounds like they’ve got Pocket import already.

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The other alternatives people have mentioned so far (I’ve been asking!) are Wallabag, Instapaper and Joplin, but no majority consensus so far by any means.

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Readwise has been great for me and does everything I want and more. I am very glad I wound up going with them when I was considering options a few years ago, I thought about Pocket but it had too many rabit holes of ‘trending/popular’ content that my ADHD brain would get sucked down too easily :sweat_smile:

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This is exactly the thread I was hoping to find when I opened the Beeminder forum today :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

I guess I’ll check out Readwise. I may put off picking a Pocket replacement until I see what Kobo is going to do, if anything. I just got a Kobo ereader a couple of months ago and have been delighted with its Pocket integration. :frowning:

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