Thread: While reading Pocket articles on Kobo, is there a way to show the original article?
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Old 09-25-2018, 08:00 PM   #3
davidfor
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Originally Posted by FrustratedReader View Post
Pocket is a privacy fail and also doesn't work well. The ONLY use case is people with no laptop/PC.
I also find that "Reader" mode often skips parts of pages.
If there are issues with how Pocket displays the articles, report them to Pocket. They are actually the ones generating the pages displayed.
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Save As "Web Page Complete" and you can import into Calibre and convert.
Best solution, especially if an article is several pages, is top copy & paste into MS Word or LibreOffice Writer, optionally adjust graphics and tables, optionally remove links (select entire document and right click, remove hyperlink to remove ALL links in LibreOffice).
Then convert using Calibre (.doc on Windows or .odt on Linux).
FAR better results, and private. Why tell a 3rd party all the pages you are especially interested in, apart from the fact it often doesn't work properly.
The create WP doc and import to Calibre also lets you easily combine content from different web sites.
And you have very quickly outlined why people are willing to let Pocket see what they are browsing. The amount of work needed to get this right is beyond most people and the amount of time spent at the PC doing this would probably mean they should have just read the article.
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The Kobo Web Browser is a pain anyway, I don't know why they don't paginate the web pages as Kindle does (or did), simple as eBooks are sort of continuous HTML anyway, paginated. Actually I wish a desktop and mobile browser had a kindle reader mode, scrolls were obsolete 2000 years ago (Codex means paginated rather than continuous scroll). Scrolling is SO painful on Kobo, and often accidentality the font size is changed.
But, that isn't how web pages are designed. They are designed to be scrolled. Having a page up and down would be good, but I don't believe that not supporting scrolling is the right thing. In fact, I believe you would see more complaints than praise.
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