[HN Gopher] Instapaper Rakuten Kobo Integration
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Instapaper Rakuten Kobo Integration
Author : robin_reala
Score : 47 points
Date : 2025-07-23 11:48 UTC (3 days ago)
(HTM) web link (blog.instapaper.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (blog.instapaper.com)
| fermentation wrote:
| Between the two I honestly did not expect Instapaper surviving
| longer
| AdmiralAsshat wrote:
| Mozilla seemed really determined to kill Pocket, once they had
| made the decision. I saw multiple other companies reaching out
| about trying to acquire/save Pocket, but as far as we can tell,
| nothing came out of it.
|
| Seems rather dickish, given that they acquired the company in
| the first place. Not what I would expect of an "open source"
| company.
|
| I hope if the Pocket guys ever quit Mozilla or are laid off,
| they'll be in a position to speak about what happened.
| smarx007 wrote:
| Great news! I feel like device manufacturers always tried to
| control the whole stack vertically and users were left to their
| own devices ;) to get desired workflows and integrations working.
|
| I was actually a paying user at Instapaper, then Pocket, then
| back at Instapaper, and finally (and currently) Readwise Reader.
| Not sure this will drag me back over the fence. At least not yet
| :)
| exe34 wrote:
| Is there a good open source version of instapaper? I need to give
| Wallabag another look - has anyone used it recently?
| kreco wrote:
| I tried a year ago and then stopped after few days because it
| couldn't save properly reddit pages (new design or old design,
| does not matter).
|
| From my experience it had the exact same behavior as the
| "Reading mode" feature from browsers. Which was not great
| overall.
|
| No clue if there is something better than that though.
| uallo wrote:
| Maybe https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore. And there are
| several bookmark managers like https://github.com/karakeep-
| app/karakeep, https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden,
| https://github.com/goniszewski/grimoire.
| TudorAndrei wrote:
| Omnivore was great but it was bought by Eleven Labs
| (https://elevenlabs.io/blog/omnivore-joins-elevenlabs) and it
| looks pretty inactive.
| hrnnnnnn wrote:
| I tried to install it recently to a linux container running on
| proxmox. I gave up after half an hour because it requires a ton
| of PHP dependencies and there's no instructions or script
| provided to install them. I guess if you use the docker version
| it should be easier, but that wasn't an option for me.
| ethan_smith wrote:
| Wallabag 2.6.1 (released earlier this year) has improved
| stability, better article parsing via Readability, and supports
| EPUB/PDF export, though self-hosting still requires some
| technical know-how.
| input_sh wrote:
| Personally, I am and always was very put off by Wallabag's
| design. It seems permanently stuck in the 2010s default
| Bootstrap era.
|
| There was and technically still is Omnivore
| (https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore), but it got aquired
| by ElevenLabs last year and the official instance got shut
| down. Shiori (https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori) also comes
| to mind, but I think that's about it.
|
| As for closed source solutions, I'd say Readwise Reader
| (https://readwise.io/read) actually innovated a little bit for
| the first time in over a decade by catering to power users, but
| I didn't use it often enough to justify a perpetual $10/month
| subscription (no free tier what so ever).
|
| Nowadays I just use Obsidian's web clipper.
| dockerd wrote:
| I am using Raindrop and it seems to work for me.
| wlesieutre wrote:
| Never heard of Wallabag but found a video of the web client
| here: https://wallabag.it/en/
|
| All I'd really want to do to that design is lay off the drop
| shadows
| efls wrote:
| A fairly new alternative to Wallabag is Readeck. Easily self
| hosted and comes with great API integration. And fully FOSS.
|
| https://www.readeck.org
| kstrauser wrote:
| Oh hallelujah. I used Pocket solely as a means to get long
| articles onto my Kobo so I could read them when I had idle time,
| and was seriously bummed that they canceled it. I scripted up
| some stuff to pull new links from my GoodLinks app, convert them
| to PDFs, and upload them to Dropbox so they'd automatically sync
| to my reader, but it was janky and the UI for selecting and
| reading articles that way on my Kobo isn't nearly as nice as the
| Pocket UI there.
|
| I'm so glad this is happening. Guess I'm an Instapaper user now.
| Mobius01 wrote:
| Brilliant news! I really like my Kobo Libra, it feels like the
| idea eReader format.
| josteink wrote:
| That's really nice to hear.
|
| I just bought a Kobo Libra Colour, knowing up front that the
| widely mentioned Pocket support now was a dud.
|
| As such I had no expectations for such functionality, but maybe
| I'll get it anyway.
|
| Thanks to everyone involved. It's appreciated!
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