Kobo (ereader) + Pocket was always just an amazing and low friction combo. This blows.

I was a paying Pocket customer until a few weeks ago. I switched to Wallabag plus https://gitlab.com/anarcat/wallabako/ to sync to my Kobo. It's not polished, but honestly neither was Pocket with their decline in both article parsing and the iOS apps over the last few years.

Hopefully this situation encourages more contribution and improvement to tools like these.

What if Rakuten reimplemented their own version of Pocket and offered it as a Firefox add-on? A man can dream.

I used this a lot, and had a tool specifically to replace it with another service. I see others created a fork too. https://github.com/Podginator/KoboOmnivoreConverter

They'll probably remove it now, and I am devastated about that, because I still use it pretty often with my Self-Hosted Omnivore.

I might see if I can find a way to prevent updates in the future. Or hopefully they just hide the Menu Option and keep the code intact so that I can use KoboMenu to re-enable it.

If anyone from Kobo is reading, please just hide it - don't remove all the code - thanks.

Yep, this got me hooked on pocket as well. I had/have so many articles on there that ar easy to read on a bus / train / plane or in bed before falling asleep.

And the reasons to shutdown are pretty lame. “ But the way people save and consume content on the web has evolved, so we’re channeling our resources into projects that better match browsing habits today.”

It worked for me? And probably at least hundreds or thousands others?

Was really considering using https://www.reademaillater.com/ to sync long newsletters (mainly Matt Levine, which isn't available free on the web but is via email) to my Kobo, and this sucks.

My first thought as well. I wonder what Kobo will do in response to this announcement.

This is the primary way I read longer articles on the internet. I hope something else pops up because this changes my daily routine pretty significantly.