For the uninitiated, Instapaper and Pocket are two bookmarking apps that allow you to save articles that come across as interesting to you on the internet. Basically, with these apps installed on your smartphones or computers, you can save things that you would like to read/revisit at a later time. And by integrating your accounts on these services with Kindle, you can essentially leverage your Kindle to read the articles from Instapaper and Pocket, in much the same way as you do with eBooks.
Send Instapaper Articles to Kindle
If you are new to Instapaper, go to their website and sign up for the service. However, if you are already a member, you can proceed right away. Here’s how.
Go to Instapaper and log in to your account.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page, hit the More button, and select How to Save.
Drag the Save to Instapaper bookmarklet to your bookmarks bar.
Next, go to Settings and scroll down to the Kindle section.
In the Send-to-Kindle Email input box, enter your Send-to-Kindle email, and hit Save Kindle Preferences. If you are doing this for your Kindle device, it is usually your email username followed by [at kindle dot com]. If, however, you want to do it for the Kindle app installed on a device, you can check your Kindle email address from the link here.
You should now see the Kindle Automatic Delivery option pop up.
Here, tap on the checkbox that says Send my Unread articles to my Kindle automatically. Further, you can also customize other settings to your liking.
Hit the Save Kindle Preferences button again and tap on Get Kindle Bookmarklet.
Drag the Send to Kindle bookmarklet to your bookmarks bar.
Finally, you need to whitelist your Instapaper address on Kindle’s Personal Document Settings under Approved Personal Document E-mail List. To do this, copy the address ending in [at instapaper dot com] and add it to the list of approved addresses.
Now, when you want to add something to your Instapaper feed, open it and tap on the Save to Instapaper bookmarklet that you just added. The article will automatically be added to your list. And based on your set preferences, it will be pushed to your Kindle. However, if you want to see it immediately, hit the Send to Kindle bookmarklet.
Send Pocket Articles to Kindle
Unlike Instapaper, where the process is quite seamless and does not require the dependence of third-party software, Pocket takes a few more extra steps to get set up. Here’ how.
First, you need to go to Pocket2Kindle and log in to your Pocket account.
Once done, you will be prompted to authorize the service to connect to your account and access the information. Click Authorise.
You will now be asked to choose a plan between Standard and Premium. Choose the one that fits your needs. For this tutorial, we will be using the Standard plan, and it should suffice most of our needs.
Now, click on Create Delivery to set up your article delivery schedule.
From here, customize the settings to your liking and hit Start Delivery.
Similar to Instapaper, you will be required to enter your Kindle email address here. Enter the same and copy the Pocket2Kindle’s email address to add it to your list of approved addresses under Personal Document Settings.
Finally, hit Start Delivering Now to finish the process.
That’s all! You can now enjoy articles that you add to your bookmark app of choice, be it Instapaper or Pocket, and read them on your Kindle.
