Kobo ereaders are swapping out Pocket for Instapaper

Rakuten and Instapaper have announced a brand new integration that allows you to entry saved articles on Kobo ereaders. The brand new characteristic replaces an analogous one Rakuten used to supply for Pocket customers, which it was compelled to exchange after Mozilla decided to shut down the read-it-later service in Might 2025.

Instapaper on Kobo units works almost identically to the way in which Pocket did beforehand. Along with your Instapaper account linked, you may entry any article you have saved to your library. Articles could be downloaded and accessed offline, and you’ll like, delete or archive them as you see match. As somebody who relied on the Pocket integration to work my approach via a ridiculous backlog of saved articles, Instapaper makes a succesful substitute. Actually, the one factor the characteristic is lacking at this level is help for handwritten annotations on Kobos with styluses, just like the Kobo Libra Colour or Kobo Elipsa 2E.

Mozilla made the choice to wind down Pocket and some different smaller merchandise to preserve time and sources that could be higher spent on Firefox. Instapaper itself was in decline following an acquisition by Pinterest in 2016, till the builders engaged on the service bought it back and took Instapaper impartial in 2018.

Pocket and Instapaper aren’t one-to-one replacements for one another (Instapaper appears a lot much less involved with preserving photos, for instance) however they’re shut. For anybody who relied on Pocket, Rakuten changing the service with Instapaper is a best-case state of affairs. The brand new Instapaper integration is on the market globally on all at the moment supported Kobo ereaders.