I don't understand. How is that different from bookmarks?

One is a queue. Another is a directory. Pocket articles are more conceptually one-and-done. I don't have time to read this now, so I put on the queue to read tomorrow morning. Not, I found this cool article I plan to reread many times over several years.

This is absolutely an advertised feature of Pocket and it's frustrating they're so inept in supporting this.

But can't u just use one of the bookmark folder as a queue?

Totally

by saving things for later you mean that a site copy is stored somewhere, so you could find it again years later?

More like: this looks a good article, but I'd rather read it over morning tea, so I'll save it to Pocket for later (on the order of days to weeks).

The paid version does this. It keeps the text even if the original article was removed.

ok, then the free version is just like the bookmarks.

It says it does but in practice this is a "we will do our best." I've run into this with now paywalled articles I can't get to my highlights on.

With the exception of syncing the list between devices (a feature I personally can't imagine myself needing or wanting, though I can definitely see why others would), these things are basically what tabs are for. You open things up in tabs to read them later, and you can also search tabs (a feature supported by firefox, at least, not sure about other browsers) and categorize them (their order and grouping into separate windows). Tabs also have the benefit of being extremely convenient, whereas there's a whole lot more friction involved in using any other option, like bookmarks, or things like pocket.

Maybe if you have big amounts of RAM and never turn off your computer nor close your browser.

I like being able to read my bookmarks a week, or even a month later.

> Maybe if you have big amounts of RAM

Browsers these days have settings which automatically unload tabs to make sure you don't run out of RAM. I personally don't run into issues with 16GB of RAM, so I don't have those settings enabled.

> and never turn off your computer nor close your browser. I like being able to read my bookmarks a week, or even a month later.

Browsers allow persisting the set of windows and tabs you have open across sessions, so this isn't an issue. I probably have a few hundred tabs open at any given moment across a few subject-specific windows, some of those tabs several months old, and I close my browser and shut down my computer all the time. Firefox simply restores the windows and tabs when I open it, so it all works out just fine.

about:unloads

Oof that won't work for me, I can't stand having 1-2 stale tabs open. It feels like clutter and I instinctively close them.

You'd really hate my browser state. While on a project I can easily have a few hundred tabs open for days.