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Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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1222 points phantomathkg | 2 comments | 22 May 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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AdmiralAsshat ◴[22 May 25 17:35 UTC] No.44064463[source]▶
Well, crap. I've had a Pocket account for more than ten years. It's a key feature on my Kobo devices, to boot.

I hope Kobo manages to find some alternative provider for similar functionality, rather than just dropping it altogether.

EDIT: Oh, and worth noting that this product will officially die before Mozilla fulfills its promise to open source it, back when they acquired Pocket. Thanks, guys.

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goku12 ◴[22 May 25 17:49 UTC] No.44064657[source]▶
I use KOReader [1] on my Kobo. It supports Wallabag [2]. Wallabag offers both hosted [3] and self-hosted options. There's also a standalone kobo client for Wallabag [4]. In addition, Wallabag also supports direct import from Pocket.

[1] https://koreader.rocks/

[2] https://wallabag.org/

[3] https://www.wallabag.it/en

[4] https://gitlab.com/anarcat/wallabako

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1. hiq ◴[22 May 25 19:57 UTC] No.44066184[source]▶
Thanks, just set it up via koreader that I already had installed.

Any opinion on using wallabako vs koreader? koreader might involve some more steps to sync it looks like?

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2. goku12 ◴[23 May 25 05:10 UTC] No.44070024[source]▶
It has been a while since I used Wallabag on KOReader and I have no experience using wallabako (that project wasn't around when I tried Wallabag). But seeing that you're already using KOReader, I don't expect either of them to present a challenge to you. As far as I remember, using Wallabag on KOReader, including sync was simple enough.

The only issue I have with Wallabag is that it reduces the battery supported time significantly. This isn't a big issue in my case, but a longer backup would be nice. However, others have reported that they don't suffer the problem to the same magnitude. Perhaps wallabako can reduce that power usage when KOReader can be exited.