To me, this effect is only prevented by the fact that I get the articles emailed to my Kindle. If I was just marking something to "read later", and expecting to read it later on my computer's web browser, it would never happen.

But instead it shows up on my Kindle. I'm in a completely different mode when reading my Kindle than I'm in when on the computer. I'm calmer, slower, and I'll actually sit down and read the articles.

This is I think about 60% of the value I get out of Pinboard; most of what it does for me is clear tabs.

But I pay for an archive account and it does full-text search, so the other huge benefit is that when what my tabs are full of is PDF ePrint papers, I can search later for things and get results for research questions faster than I can from Google.

Heh, Douglas Adams wrote in 1987 "The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself..."

I was using delicious for the same reason but there was one aspect of it which I have never able.to found anywhere. I used to go to delicious periodically and check out what the people I follow saving as their bookmarks. I learned so much from doing that. Pinboard has never gave the same taste, it is practically automated archiving tool for me along with Pocket.

> /dev/null for web content

This is a surprisingly apt comparison, and is probably why I stopped using it a while back.

I saw somebody who had a bookmarklet to pretend to add things to Instapaper just to get the feeling you’re taking about.

I'm OK with it as it emphasizes that collectively, they all did it, yet the current owners aren't trying to take credit for what they didn't do.

I think you kind of get to do that when you own something. I don't think they were being disrespectful, and how else do you talk about history of a product without continuously saying "before we bought it... blah feature"?

I think it is akin to when you work at a place for five years but it is bought by another company at the three year mark. How do you put that on your resume? I worked at <new company name> for five years? I worked at <old company name> for five years? Or split it up and make it look like you changed jobs?

It's awkward. But ya just gotta let it slide as long as it's not disrespectful.

Brian from Instapaper here, we originally wrote it that way, but it felt really weird and disjointed, especially if you weren't familiar with the entire history. Just wanted to keep it consistent, not really take credit for Marco's accomplishments.

Especially since some of the events are listed with links to Marco Arment’s personal site.

Agreed. I think it would have been better to split the timeline into "Marco added..." or "Marco launched..." for anything he did as an individual prior to the acquisition.

Yeah its super odd.

Perhaps they were using a font in which the lower case e and lower case c were pretty similar.

I think Pocket is better, by the style, fluency, and because it transforms websites to text better than Ip. But, one of the best features of Instapaper (which doesn't have Pocket) is that you can change the title names. I really like that feature.

Definitely Instapaper. I like the design better, pagination mode in the Pocket iOS app ist just plain buggy, and I already used Instapaper back before Pocket (formerly ReadItLater) even existed..

Instapaper has a dark-themed web version which I like and use a lot. Also Instapaper Premium, which I happily paid for a while, is now available for free for all Instapaper users, which should be consider an advantage.

However, I'm using Instapaper for a long while which is the primary reason keep using it.

For me it's Pocket because it's built into my Kobo.

I use Bookmark OS. Though not strictly a read it later bookmark manager, I find it easier to organize things

Instapaper has highlighting, which I can later export to Evernote etc

I just use Evernote.

Definitely. I use it from time to time, but rarely I can get through more than a short article without being too frustrated with something of how it works.

Things like pronouncing in an inintelligible way any english words in the middle of an article in spanish, or reading A.P.I. as "A, period. P, period. I, period." make it so that it works great for some articles, and terribly for others.

I recently tried Pocket's TTS on my iPhone and found it to be pretty good. The person who recommended it suggested downloading the high-quality "Alex" voice, which is around 900MB. I have plenty of room on my phone right now so it wasn't a big deal—but I could see how others would not want to download this voice.

What do you find lacking about it? I've heard (first-hand) it sounds even better on Android. There are offline voices and also live-streamed voices, and it all sounded pretty decent to me.

It's a bit strange to call an app "Abandoned" because the last update was 6 months ago. When an app is mature and stable, it doesn't require a steady flow of updates to be good and useful (except as a way for developers to show that they are still active and "please" their users).

I'd call it abandoned if it didn't fit the platform standards, if it was buggy, if it didn't run on some new devices…

Shameless plug: I started creating an alternative client for Android, you can download it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.olivierpay...

I'm a heavy Instapaper user myself and was always disappointed with the quality of the official Android app: it runs terribly slow, some articles don't even show up, no image thumbnail, etc.

My app doesn't have all the feature from the official app yet (I'm starting simple), but I'm very open to feedback.

Software updated less than six months ago is "abandoned"?

Instapaper exists since 2007 and has a trademark on the name filed in August 2010: http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4808:v4h...

Instagram has their trademark since September 2011 (http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4808:v4h...).

So no, Instapaper is not "lucky" to still be in the App Store.

Don't assume that because Instagram is well-known that they have more seniority and the rights and abilities to do whatever they want.

I believe this only applies to applications that use Instagram's API, which we do not. https://techcrunch.com/2013/08/19/instagram-cracks-down-on-c...

Instapaper predates Instagram. Pretty sure that cease and desist won't work in their case.