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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.
Posted by gsiemens at February 2, 2008 12:30 PM | TrackBack
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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.
Posted by: Don Morrison at February 3, 2008 10:50 AM

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
Posted by: Richard Sheehy at February 3, 2008 10:16 PM

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.
Posted by: Trina Cole at February 5, 2008 5:42 PM

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

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