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    1222 points phantomathkg | 12 comments | | HN request time: 0.433s | source | bottom
    1. interestica ◴[] No.44064821[source]
    Kobo (ereader) + Pocket was always just an amazing and low friction combo. This blows.
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    2. sswatson ◴[] No.44064857[source]
    My first thought as well. I wonder what Kobo will do in response to this announcement.
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    3. timvdalen ◴[] No.44064906[source]
    Me too, I hope there will be a replacement with the same low friction.

    I've been using IFTTT with RSS feeds to add serialized stories to my Kobo as they release.

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    4. marapuru ◴[] No.44065334[source]
    Yep, this got me hooked on pocket as well. I had/have so many articles on there that ar easy to read on a bus / train / plane or in bed before falling asleep.

    And the reasons to shutdown are pretty lame. “ But the way people save and consume content on the web has evolved, so we’re channeling our resources into projects that better match browsing habits today.”

    It worked for me? And probably at least hundreds or thousands others?

    5. tacoman ◴[] No.44065464[source]
    This is the primary way I read longer articles on the internet. I hope something else pops up because this changes my daily routine pretty significantly.
    6. podgietaru ◴[] No.44065511[source]
    I used this a lot, and had a tool specifically to replace it with another service. I see others created a fork too. https://github.com/Podginator/KoboOmnivoreConverter

    They'll probably remove it now, and I am devastated about that, because I still use it pretty often with my Self-Hosted Omnivore.

    I might see if I can find a way to prevent updates in the future. Or hopefully they just hide the Menu Option and keep the code intact so that I can use KoboMenu to re-enable it.

    If anyone from Kobo is reading, please just hide it - don't remove all the code - thanks.

    7. deviantintegral ◴[] No.44065589[source]
    I was a paying Pocket customer until a few weeks ago. I switched to Wallabag plus https://gitlab.com/anarcat/wallabako/ to sync to my Kobo. It's not polished, but honestly neither was Pocket with their decline in both article parsing and the iOS apps over the last few years.

    Hopefully this situation encourages more contribution and improvement to tools like these.

    8. podgietaru ◴[] No.44065753{3}[source]
    They should be able to change it with fairly minimal changes. I managed to modify some things to proxy articles from Omnivore to it, and the functionality remained largely the same across the two services.

    They'd have to implement some kind of login, but they they should just be able to build some kind of converter between whatever format and the format that is expected by the Kobo device.

    9. pityJuke ◴[] No.44065987[source]
    Was really considering using https://www.reademaillater.com/ to sync long newsletters (mainly Matt Levine, which isn't available free on the web but is via email) to my Kobo, and this sucks.
    10. puzzlingcaptcha ◴[] No.44066974[source]
    What if Rakuten reimplemented their own version of Pocket and offered it as a Firefox add-on? A man can dream.
    11. xandrius ◴[] No.44072089{3}[source]
    Could you share the flow if someone wanted to replicate it for their own Kobo?
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    12. timvdalen ◴[] No.44094891{4}[source]
    Yes, but it currently depends on Pocket working.

    I have an RSS feed from RoyalRoad that new episodes come in on. Using IFTTT, I have an action set up to, whenever a new item comes in on that feed, add the _URL_ of it to my Pocket account. Then, Kobo just syncs the Pocket articles automatically, and the new episode is added.