I found something pretty cool today. Instapaper is a web bookmarking site: save a link onto the site and come back to it later. As an added bonus, it tracks whether a link has been read, and no e-mail is required for registration.
What makes the site worthwhile is its bookmarklet – it’s a bookmark meant to be placed on your toolbar in Firefox (and maybe Internet Explorer too? It’s just Javascript), which acts like a button and performs a fancy web trick to add your current site to Instapaper’s list. Overly long articles discovered at work can now be saved for home reading without synchronizing bookmarks or – ugh – emailing yourself.
The one thing I thought they were missing was the ability to share lists of bookmarks, but then again, it’d intrude on sites like del.icio.us and destroy its wonderful simplicity.