It allows you to send up to five digests per week with ten articles per digest, options for daily and weekly digests, and the ability to compile digests randomly or based on which articles were saved more recently. There are premium tiers that offer things like sending digests with articles containing a specific tag, unlimited digests, an extra ten articles per delivery, faster delivery speeds, and a few extras, but the free tier should be enough for most people. After that, you'll be able to create a custom digest of articles to send to your Kindle either daily, weekly, or on a custom basis. If you have a Kindle and want to sync it with your Pocket account, you'll need to create a P2K (Pocket2Kindle) account, which is done by simply logging into and linking your Pocket account. There's no way to automate sending articles to your Kindle from within Pocket (something Instapaper offers), but you can do so with an extra third-party service. For $4.99/month, you'll get custom fonts, unlimited highlights, a permanently saved version of every article (in case they get deleted or modified later on), and suggested tags for easier organization. Pocket's free tier supports unlimited saving and cross-platform support like Instapaper, but it uses a tagging system instead of folders, and its appearance options are mostly locked behind its subscription. For $2.99/month, you'll get full-text search in every article, unlimited highlights, text-to-speech playlists from your phone, and the ability to build your own Kindle Digest, an ebook-like file that compiles a predetermined number of articles for you to read from your Kindle.
Instapaper's free tier gives you unlimited saves, cross-platform support, folders for organizing articles (though there's no proper tagging system), and third-party API integration.
They mostly function the same way-tap a few buttons and the article you're viewing will be stored in your account's queue so you can get back to it later-but their free offerings are a bit different, and each has a different advantage when syncing with your e-reader. The only two that currently sync with Kindle and Kobo are Instapaper and Pocket, both of which offer free and premium tiers. Kobo's software can sync directly with your Pocket account.īefore sending articles to your e-reader of choice, you'll have to pick a read-it-later service. Setting that up is easy, too: Create an account with either Pocket or Instapaper, set up the share extensions in your browser and on your phone, and tap some specific buttons every time you come across an article you'd like to read, and they'll be there waiting for you on your Kindle or Kobo. If you have an iOS device, a Focus mode for reading could help you weed out any distractions, but if you have a Kindle or Kobo e-reader, those devices create a much better space for dedicated, distraction-free reading that'll help you finally put a dent in your to-read pile. Sure, you could dedicate some time to sit down and clear your article backlog on your phone or computer, but those devices throw so many distractions our way with push alerts and text chimes they're rarely the ideal vessel for attentive reading. You can use read-later extensions from Pocket or Instapaper to save articles on your Kindle or Kobo with a single click so you can revisit them later. But it’s 2021 and you don’t need to be in a specific location or use a specific device anymore to read something. Between appointments, meetings, time with loved ones, errands, and general to-do's, you might forget about that article you bookmarked in your browser to read when you had the time.