Mobile Industry Review weighs Pocket vs. Instapaper. Given that Instapaper’s “Download to Kindle .mobi” button has now been broken for the last four days, Pocket is looking more and more appealing to me. Why did Pinterest buy Instapaper, if they’re not going to maintain the service? Perhaps it was just a ‘kill a potential competitor’ purchase?

Update: after ten days (25th Nov) this feature is still broken.
Update: after eleven days (26th Nov) this feature is still broken.
Update: after two weeks (29th Nov), this feature is only intermittently working. Usually broken, sometimes not.

Update: end of July 2018. Instapaper is now effectively dead in the UK and Europe, killed off by its new owners. It can no longer be reached due to ‘data protection’ barriers, even when using multiple different VPNs. The access problem hasn’t been fixed in three months. It will be interesting to see what the EU may have to say about this in future legal moves, in terms of anti-competitive practices from the owners Pinterest.