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hey this is Thomas Easton from the version we're checking out pocket today which is a completely rebranded and redesigned version of the read it later app which is launching today on iOS Android and Kindle Fire if you've used me too later before you'll know that it's a little bit clunky and it kind of looks like it was designed a couple years ago which it was but it has an aged very well and it's got both a free and paid version and if you're using the free version you know just tends not to work that well especially compared to competitors like readability and Instapaper the new app though is completely redesigned and an rebranded as I mentioned and you know the big thing here is now the ability to sort by content and it's not always perfect but if you if you want you just click in the top left and you have the ability to jump between articles video and images so with video it should be pulling in YouTube and Vimeo links that you've saved and it'll pop up a player unfortunately doesn't always work right so there's a lot of things here that I imported from my giant Instapaper queue that that aren't video and they're showing up here so if you want to watch the video just find one that has the play button here click on it and the the regular YouTube or Vimeo player plays and you have the same options that you have on the regular articles as well the other big thing you can do is store by images which is kind of weird because we just don't it's it's not the same thing as saving video or text to read later but you know you can load images if you'd like to check them out whenever you want you'll probably be spending them but you know most of your time in text view and this has been completely redesigned and it actually looks I'd argue a lot better than then even instapaper the pocket team has done a really good job here it's very clean it's very flat and you know once you're done messing with any of the settings they just kind of bleed away so a single tap removes it and you have full text taking over the entire screen and down here on the bottom you've got the ability to jump back the ability to archive the ability to star and then a handy pop-up text section and so you can change the justification you can change to night mode you can move make the text bigger you can make it smaller and you can change between a Sarah sans-serif' on and then the other nice thing here is that there are a ton of sharing options so if you use a reader letter Pro you'll know that there's a lot built in there so you have basic copy Twitter Google Reader but then clicking more you've got everything from delicious and Evernote to you no stumble upon and then it's also you can share with apps that are built into iOS or Android so one of the big problems that I found with with the pocket reading view is that there's no pagination and so you you can't set it up so that you can swipe between different pages I talked to pocket and they said that it's coming in future versions but unfortunately won't be here to launch so if you go back to your main ListView you do have a couple options for dealing with with big libraries so you are able to add tags and so in order to do that you just tap the pencil button in the top right and then you can select the stores that you'd like to tag and select however many you want and then you just click the tag button in the bottom right and it lets you create a new tag or add an old one just going to add a new tag and save and it's immediately applied to all of those and so then in order to access that you can just click you can pull at the top here your list click here and select new tag so here's all the things I just tagged a moment ago it's pretty fast it works really well if you if you like to sort by tag or size or by article length what you also find up here is the ability to sort by title or by URL there's no any text search yet it might be coming in future versions but for now it's pretty good for you know quickly finding that article that you want to find the pocket upgrade is really a huge improvement in terms of both design and usability and if you're a read it later user then it's going to be a really big improvement for you if you're already using an app like Instapaper readability to save articles especially to only read text it's probably not worth making the upgrade you know the nice thing with pocket though is that it is starting to expand out beyond just text and so you can save video and images and so you know if you really see yourself watching a lot more video then it's probably worth considering a switch