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Got Pocket? - Review of Pocket Reader App

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There are some apps that seem to have been around forever, but that for some reason, you’ve never really noticed before. Okay, that may just be me, I’ve been known to walk through life with blinders on on occasion. However, it wasn’t until late 2022 that the app in question drifted out of the background and into my online life. The app in question? Pocket. A simple app that has turned out to be a surprisingly useful tool for me. Now, Pocket is one of those ancient apps that has been around since the beginning of the internet, or at least 2007, which for many people amounts to the same thing. It started out life as a browser extension for Firefox, before being spun into a full-scale app. In 2017, Mozilla Corp., the organisation behind the Firefox browser, acquired Pocket, which by that time had 17 million active users. Unfortunately, that‘s about as much as I was able to find out, there doesn‘t seem to be anything more recent available in the public domain. Personally, I first noticed ...