• noodle (he/him)@lemm.ee
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    6 hours ago

    bUt iT’S jUSt bOoKmARkS

    - people who are privileged enough to never have experienced multiple days without an internet connection.

    it’s a shame to see it go, it’s been the first read-it-later service that I was aware of and used. I’ve moved away to Omnivore (RIP) and then Wallabag (https://wallabag.it/ for 11€/year, but you can self-host it or find someone else to host it for you for a lower fee), but I’ve still been thinking fondly of it, despite Mozilla clearly trying to force people into social reading rather than just serve as a convenient offline storage of articles.

    edit: this post isn’t a request for advice, I’m very happy with my current Wallabag setup.

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      19 hours ago

      Why would you need a saas solution if it’s for offline reading? Seems like a contradiction

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        18 hours ago

        …so that you can read it on a device other than the one you’ve initially opened the link on? I can save a link to Wallabag from my laptop’s browser at home, have my e-readet sync it, and then read it offline while on a train.

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            16 hours ago

            it’s a jailbroken Paperwhite, so I could look into setting up a Syncthing KOReader plugin, but my current setup works perfectly fine for me.

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              16 hours ago

              oh, I realized you have been using wallabag nowadays. but syncthing, plus pages saved with the singlefile or the webscrapbook addon could work fine

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                15 hours ago

                Pocket always saved the page as both the regular website and a converted article view.

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      16 hours ago

      people who are privileged enough to never have experienced multiple days without an internet connection.

      I have, and if you need an SaaS for that, I am sorry for you. Pocket was great for getting around paywalls for a while.

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      19 hours ago

      Obsidian with the readitlater plugin is good, and actually stored in a standard format entirely on your devices, so truly offline.

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      18 hours ago

      I have ended up using Zotero for this, which takes a snapshot of the webpage for offline reading (and preservation). Synced to other clients through my WebDAV server. Originally only used Zotero as a reference manager for academic journal papers, but liked using it more broadly.

    • Artopal@lemmy.ml
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      16 hours ago

      I hear you. I discovered Omnivore and was in the process of migrating from Pocket to it until less than a year later Omnivore was gone.