Pocket, the leading app for saving articles to read later, has a new voice, the voice of Amazon Polly. And it’s good enough that you just might actually want to use it.

Today, Mozilla, the company behind Firefox, has announced that it has acquired the popular bookmarking service, Pocket.

Instapaper's decided to kill off its $US29.99 ($39)/year Instapaper Premium subscription service, effectively making all those paid features available to all users.

Bookmarking site Readability, one of the first read-it-later services, will shut down on September 30. After that, you won't be able to access the articles you've saved. Here's how to export your articles to Instapaper or Pocket.

When it comes to "read it later" services that let you save articles today to read when you have time, you only have two serious options these days: Pocket and Instapaper. Both are great, but they have diverged a bit over the years and play to different strengths. Let's compare them, head-to-head.

Android: Today, Instapaper for Android finally received an update that brings a lot of features that have already arrived on the iOS version. Changes includenew sorting options and an updated UI.

iOS: Instapaper's most recent update brings in compatibility with iOS 7, as well as a slew of new features including sorting and video support.

Instapaper, the awesome bookmark-and-read-later app, has always had a beautiful interface on Android and iOS, but not on the web. Today, its web interface has been revamped to look and work more like the Instapaper apps.

It's often hard to set aside time to read all the interesting articles you encounter during the day, which is why bookmarking services designed to maintain a 'read later' list have become so competitive. Today we're looking at the most popular three and pitting them against one another: Pocket, Instapaper and Readability. Here's how they stack up.

Android: Instapaper fans on Android have a little more reason to celebrate today: an official Instapaper app is available now at Google Play. The Instapaper for Android app looks and operates much like its iOS cousin, and brings all of the mobile features you would want to Android devices, including your saved articles, the ability to share articles right from your device, and all of the reading and customisation options you could possibly need.

iOS: Instapaper, one of our favourite bookmark-and-read-later apps, just dropped a big update with a new pagination mode, a few new touch gestures and a sepia colour tint for easier-on-the-eyes reading.

iOS: The popular read-it-later app Instapaper has just been updated to version 4.0, with a slew of new features, including a completely redesigned iPad interface.

If you read any email newsletters, you may have realised they're difficult to send to services like Instapaper or Read it Later. Blogger Matthew Guay shares an easy solution: hit the Print button first.

iOS/web: Instapaper has gone through a pretty major update, making article sharing with other Instapaper users easier, adding other social networks to which you can share, and incorporating a new "editor's picks" section where you can find other great articles.

Android/Windows Phone 7: InstaFetch brings the simplicity and readability of Instapaper to Android and Windows Phone 7, finally providing a native Instapaper app for non-iOS mobile platforms.

Add Instapaper for Chrome to the list of Chrome web apps that aren't just bookmarks. This unofficial webapp adds offline article syncing, extended pagination options and saving of where you left off in an article to the popular read-later service.

If you were one of the multitude who received a Kindle over the holidays, you are probably wondering what you can do to get more from it. For starters, we'd recommend setting it up with read-it-later service Instapaper.

iOS: We've advocated the use of alternative browsers in iOS before, but if you're looking for a really powerful browsing experience on your iPhone or iPad, look no further than Cyberspace, which adds Reader-like functionality and site-specific search to the browser itself.

Lifehacker favourite Instapaper is a great way to keep track of stuff you find online and want to read later. Reader Chris Jones made it even more convenient with a simple AutoHotkey script to add a useful keyboard shortcut.