Designing a listen later pipeline

I've had this long, long running relationship with bookmarking and read it later services. I'll commit to one, excited about whatever feature set it offers and then, without fail, my list grows and grows and grows and grows. I archive things to reset, repeat and then move to a different service. The only thing that's ever worked has been listening to articles as audio when I have a spare moment. Sometimes it's background noise but, generally, I absorb things better as audio. Pocket (RIP) was arguably the best at this: it parsed articles beautifully, audio playback was pleasant and it queued things reliably. Instapaper worked fairly well but went through periods of stagnation before its current renaissance. Having Siri read pages to you in Safari also works so long as it's not interrupted and the article isn't too long (it's awful at persisting position and long articles simply fail part way through). Readwise Reader deserves an honorable mention here but, when I last tried it, it…