So I Tried to Switch to Pocket…

I've been an avid Instapaper user for years now, and even though I tried out Read it Later back in the day, and even paid for a Readability subscription when it first came out, I've always come back to Instapaper. It's familiar, works great, and I always liked the fact that it had an obvious business model that didn't include selling our data to advertisers (beyond the ad from The Deck in the web app) or getting bought out and shut down.

Then Marco sold Instapaper to Betaworks, and suddenly it felt like time to look around again at the reading later app landscape. Practically everyone kept telling me I had to try Pocket, so I finally did.

Jump over to the full article on Web.AppStorm to see how that worked out.

tl;dr: Instapaper and Pocket both have their strengths and weaknesses. Neither are bad, and I'd be highly inclined to stick to Pocket just for its speed, app selection, and syncing read position (a major, major plus). But I ended up returning to Instapaper for the built-in network (Instapaper's most underrated feature), the iOS apps' font selection, and the full-text search.

Continue reading at http://web.appstorm.net/reviews/media-reviews/an-instapaper-devotee-takes-pocket-for-a-spin/

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