Instapaper vs pocket 20155/17/2023 ![]() Paper is easier to read in sunlight and to get autographed by an author. ![]() Physical books don’t run out of battery or need to be put in “airplane mode”. I had all the usual elitist objections to ebooks: I like the feel of a physical book and the ease of flipping between pages. I couldn’t lug a personal library with me across the country, and libraries would have their own challenges: getting a library card in a city where I’m not a resident is difficult (though not impossible) a book might not arrive via interlibrary loan before I leave the area and even if it did, I might not finish reading it by that deadline.Īnd yet I dreaded the alternative. Wishing to avoid growing this collection, I rediscovered my childhood joy of public libraries: all the books I could read, for free, and without being weighed down by them! I’ve bought nary a book in the last decade, preferring to use interlibrary loan to fill all my bookish needs.īut when I looked ahead to nomading, I knew that physical books, either purchased or lent, would not be viable. On a JoCo Cruise to Mexico, I sat poolside with Wil Wheaton’s Just a Geek in one hand and a Sharpie in the other, so I could ambush the author for an autograph if he walked by.īut in 2011, when I moved for the first time in a decade, I discovered how much my personal library of 600 books weighed. As I cycled 210 miles across Missouri’s Katy Trail, I would break from the summer heat to read the collected trilogy of Deep Space Nine: Millennium. When my brother and I, on our 36-day cross-country road trip, ran out of things to discuss, we would sit quietly opposite each other in restaurants, he with his Wall Street Journal and me with R.A. I have never regretted having a book with me, even when it was clumsy to do so. They boxed them up and shipped them to me, 10,480 miles away, providing me an oasis in a lonely time. And so they infiltrated my bedroom and plundered my generous shelves of unread novels - a consequence of a previous summer spent working at WaldenBooks. But midway through my ten weeks in Oz, I’d already finished everything I brought. I’d brought a few books to sustain me on the long flight to Melbourne, and a few other books for the flight home. ![]() Rather than strike out on my own, I mostly kept to myself. I knew almost none of the classmates I traveled with, and I wasn’t as interested as they were in taking advantage of the lower drinking age. Unfortunately, I was not the independent traveler in 2000 that I am in 2020. Three years later, I spent a semester there. “Gosh,” I thought “Where would I go, if I could go anywhere?” Login to your Instapaper account in the web browser on PC and navigate to the Settings tab and export all your saves as HTML.When I graduated high school, one of my classmates received a gift from his parents: a trip anywhere he wanted. So, if you decide to migrate from Instapaper to Pocket without losing any of the previously saved articles, this section will help you do that.
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