Thank you for your honesty. The final point means that Pocket (never fully understood the name change from Read It Later, perhaps because like you said it supports different media types not just text?)

I've never tried instapaper. At some point I got lazy and stopped marking stories as read on Pocket/RIL and now I have this ginormous (almost 2 GB) of things to read. So what did I do instead of reading? I uninstalled the app and the bookmarklet.