Read it Later is a Firefox add-on that lets you create a reading list from interesting links. Once it's installed, you can right-click on any web site or link to save it to your reading list.
The add-on also installs two buttons in your Firefox toolbar. You can click Read Later to save the page you're currently on. And when you click on Reading List you'll cycle through saved pages. Clicking the little black arrow next to it will bring up a list of saved stories.
When you're reading a saved page, the Read Later button turns into a Mark as Read button which you can use to remove pages from your list.
Sure, you could always save pages as bookmarks, add them to del.icio.us, or use Google Notebook to save pages for later. But we like the clean and easy to use interface of Read it Later. Of course, if your Firefox Toolbar is already overloaded with add-ons, Read it Later might add more clutter to your life, which kind of defeats the purpose.
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11-09-2007 @ 5:36PM
andrew blake said...
this is very handy - gotta love firefox and its extensions !
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11-09-2007 @ 5:55PM
Stephen said...
I absolutely love this. I've been looking for something like it for ages.
The key thing that I've been looking for for years and haven't been able to find is something that would throw up a random bookmark.
It can give you a big headache if you start keeping a toread/starred list and you start seeing it get longer and longer. You see that one of the next things on the list is a bit of heavy reading and that puts you off so you either skip it (leaving lots of heavy reading on your list) or dread going to the list knowing its next to read.
I've always thought being able to have a random article thrown at you would take a lot of the stress off.
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11-09-2007 @ 7:26PM
michael said...
Does anyone know of such an extension for IE7?
I really like IE7, and I know there's just as many add-ons/extensions for IE7.
Thanks.
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11-09-2007 @ 8:47PM
Kat2 said...
Meh, I have a temporary bookmarks folder that I use for this sort of thing. I have enough Firefox extensions cluttering up my installation.
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11-09-2007 @ 11:51PM
Mysterius said...
Hmm... sounds rather like the starring feature in Firefox 3, doesn't it?
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11-10-2007 @ 4:39PM
Neville Franks said...
In both IE and Firefox you can use Surfulater to permanently save interesting web content, edit it, add notes, attach files, organize and find information and more. See http://www.surfulater.com
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