{"id":20248,"date":"2017-11-15T22:43:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T21:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=20248"},"modified":"2017-11-15T22:43:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T21:43:48","slug":"pocket-vs-instapaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2017\/11\/15\/pocket-vs-instapaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Pocket vs. Instapaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Mobile Industry Review<\/em> weighs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileindustryreview.com\/2017\/08\/pocket-vs-instapaper.html\">Pocket vs. Instapaper<\/a>.  Given that Instapaper&#8217;s &#8220;Download to Kindle .mobi&#8221; button has now been broken <em>for the last four days<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/getpocket.com\/\">Pocket<\/a> is looking more and more appealing to me.  Why did Pinterest buy Instapaper, if they&#8217;re not going to maintain the service?  Perhaps it was just a &#8216;kill a potential competitor&#8217; purchase? <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2017\/11\/downloadkindle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2017\/11\/downloadkindle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"134\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20249\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Update: after ten days (25th Nov) this feature is <em>still<\/em> broken.<br \/>\nUpdate: after eleven days (26th Nov) this feature is <em>still<\/em> broken.<br \/>\nUpdate: after two weeks (29th Nov), this feature is only intermittently working.  Usually broken, sometimes not. <\/p>\n<p>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 &#8216;data protection&#8217; barriers, even when using multiple different VPNs. The access problem hasn&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile Industry Review weighs Pocket vs. Instapaper. Given that Instapaper&#8217;s &#8220;Download to Kindle .mobi&#8221; button has now been broken for &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2017\/11\/15\/pocket-vs-instapaper\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}