However, if you are already a member, you can proceed right away. If you are new to Instapaper, go to their website and sign up for the service. And by integrating your accounts on these services with Kindle, you can essentially leverage your Kindle to read the articles from Instapaper and Pocket, in much the same way as you do with eBooks. Basically, with these apps installed on your smartphones or computers, you can save things that you would like to read/revisit at a later time. Let’s begin.įor the uninitiated, Instapaper and Pocket are two bookmarking apps that allow you to save articles that come across as interesting to you on the internet. So, in this article, we guide you through the steps to integrate Instapaper and Pocket with your Kindle to send articles to it and read them on the eReader. Not to mention, the ability to read articles saved on Instapaper or Pocket feed directly on your Kindle. While the biggest strength of Kindle (the eReader) is its simple prowess to make reading books simple and the whole experience more immersive, most people are unaware of some of its basic features to take their experience up a notch. The company even has an app for the same with a huge collection of books across different genres to cater to the needs of almost every individual.
I used a website called EN2Kindle, but still didn’t feel like a good workaround because it sent each individual article to Kindle instead of one single “e-book.” As you can imagine, this would have quickly cluttered up my Kindle home screen if I have quite a few articles in my Pocket queue.Amazon, one of the biggest e-commerce giants, and the company behind the popular eReader, Kindle, has managed to convince people that one of the best ways to read books is using a Kindle, with advantages that are quite apparent and reasonable. You can schedule when you wanted to send your queue to your Kindle easily with Instapaper, but you can’t do that with Pocket. My biggest issue with Pocket so far has been the lack of Kindle support. Pocket isn’t a perfect solution for me yet though. Sometimes, I would need to scroll down a few times just to get to the article. With Instapaper, it would save the related links that are added in the page from websites like ESPN, Sports Illustrated, and Buzzfeed. One thing I really like about Pocket is that it only saves the main text or the article and nothing else. Sometimes, it would just hang and I had to exit out of the app to reset it. There were times on Instapaper where I had poor cellular reception and it took a while for it to save an article. One thing that was noticibly better was that articles saved significantly faster on iOS and on the desktop regardless of how fast my internet was. If you choose the grid view, Pocket will display a thumbnail from the saved article and if it doesn’t have a picture, then it would display the headline instead, which already seemed like a good remedy to my issue with Instapaper.Īfter that, I switched all my API’s and didn’t come across any service that didn’t support Pocket. A few clicks and everything I had saved was in my Pocket’s queue. One day I finally broke down and decided to give its biggest competitor, Pocket, a try.įirst off, it wasn’t hard at all to export the articles I’ve already saved with Instapaper. I’ve overlooked this flaw many times before but recently, it’s been bothering me more and more. The only reason I decided to try Pocket and inevibitably stick with it, is because Instapaper has a hard time saving pictures. I could save an article I found on my MacBook and read it on my iPhone while waiting in line at Target. Over the years, the app has gotten better while keeping its simplistic user interface. I believe the app cost a whopping $9.99, which was pretty steep for an app at that time and my minimum wage salary. Come to think of it, it was probably one of the first apps I’ve ever bought just so I can unlock the “save unlimited articles” feature. I’ve been a loyal Instapaper ever since 2007 when I got my hands on the first generation iPhone.
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