On a given day, I have about 30 tabs open in my browser for resources I want to view when I have time. It’s a bit of a pain and can slow computer performance. Enter Instapaper – install a simple button in your browser and save it to a website (your personal “paper”) for later reading. What would be cool, as David Weinberger mentions, is the ability to make your own personal reading list public.
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6 Comments
Doesn’t Google Notebook do what you want? Not only can you save the URL at the click of a button but also a “clip” of the content on the page you’re adding — as well as your own notes. You can share your Notebook pages (on a page by page basis) with anyone who has a Google account.
You can add the Notebook “button” to your browser and/or the Google toolbar.
http://www.google.com/googlenotebook/tour1.html
Backflip has been prividing a save a URL at the click of a button service since at least 2001. URLs are saved in Folders — and you can make a Folder public to other Backflip members.
http://www.backflip.com/
I’m sure there are lots of other tools that do what you want.
George,
I use Google Notebooks and del.icio.us for collecting online information for later reading.
I will check out instapaper to see if it is simpler.
Richard
Learn2Day.com
I just discovered Instapaper, too, and while I use and still like del.icio.us, Instapaper has a nice simplicity to it that is working well for me.
What I like about Instapaper that I don’t like about Google Notebooks and del.icio.us is that Instapaper clears the link out of your unread section once you’ve clicked on the link. I use it for things I might want to read once and then never look at again. For example I have several friends who write fiction which I want to remember to read and comment on later so I use Instapaper for that. And to bookmark discussions/comics that refer to a TV show or movie that I haven’t seen yet so I can return after I’ve seen it.
I use Firefox extension called scrapBook, which allows offline reading, too.
I have been using Instapaper in conjunction with Ma.gnolia. The difference between Instapaper and de.licio.us/ma.gnolia is that I use ma.gnolia to STORE bookmarks that I want to keep. I use instapaper to mark things I that I haven’t read and don’t have time to read at the moment but know for sure I want to read at some point.