FWIW I have been using Polar for the past few months.
I use it as a place to store my ebooks (PDF) and articles (websites) that I want to read sometime in the future. In the past, I had a list for that but since I am not the reader type, that list was just growing and 'sometime in the future' might never have come. But with Polar that changed a bit.
Polar has three features which made it easier for me to actually read something from my reading list:
1. With just one click you are back where you stopped last time (Polar keeps an offline copy of every article).
2. Every document has a progress bar and you can mark what you read already. This doesn't sound like much, but in fact, it feels rewarding to fill the progress bar ;-)
3. You can add comments to the document and create Anki flashcards. That way you can create your own extract of a document to quickly review it in the future.
It is not like those things are not possible with other programs, but for me, Polar made the difference between not reading and reading (at least sometimes) because I can just start it and have everything I need in one place. I am not a particular fan of syncing all my documents via a 3rd party server, but syncing Polar via Nextcloud works just fine so far.
I use it as a place to store my ebooks (PDF) and articles (websites) that I want to read sometime in the future. In the past, I had a list for that but since I am not the reader type, that list was just growing and 'sometime in the future' might never have come. But with Polar that changed a bit.
Polar has three features which made it easier for me to actually read something from my reading list:
1. With just one click you are back where you stopped last time (Polar keeps an offline copy of every article).
2. Every document has a progress bar and you can mark what you read already. This doesn't sound like much, but in fact, it feels rewarding to fill the progress bar ;-)
3. You can add comments to the document and create Anki flashcards. That way you can create your own extract of a document to quickly review it in the future.
It is not like those things are not possible with other programs, but for me, Polar made the difference between not reading and reading (at least sometimes) because I can just start it and have everything I need in one place. I am not a particular fan of syncing all my documents via a 3rd party server, but syncing Polar via Nextcloud works just fine so far.