Saving sites: Pocket�s bookmarking app and its alternatives

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Screenshot: Barbara Krasnoff / The Verge It�s hard to keep up with all the interesting, important, or just plain fun things you come across on the web. You may come across something you just don�t have time to read...

Web page showing Collections for Your Pocket, with various articles in gallery. Screenshot: Barbara Krasnoff / The Verge

It�s hard to keep up with all the interesting, important, or just plain fun things you come across on the web. You may come across something you just don�t have time to read right now or want to save because it will come in handy later. But as most of us have discovered, creating a bookmark on a browser for each article and site that we want to read later can result in a huge bookmarky mess.

Years ago, I started getting the better of this issue by signing in to Pocket, a popular and long-standing app that allows you to save a bookmarked article to a separate server and then retrieve it to read at your leisure using either a computer or a mobile device. Pocket has been around since 2007. Originally called Read It Later, it started life as...

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