Read It Later
As you surf the web you probably find many interesting pages that you would like to read at some point — but just not right now. You could bookmark the pages, but in many cases that is overkill if you only want to read the page once. Bookmarks work better for pages you want to return to again and again. You can also email the pages to yourself. That works if you have access to email — and most people do having an online email account with Google, Yahoo or Hotmail.
There is yet another possibility. There are web services available to track interesting pages for you. They offer easy ways of marking a page as read, and easy ways to track read/unread pages. So even let you read the pages off-line or on mobile phones.
Instapaper is one such service. You create an account, and drag a bookmarklet to your browser’s bookmarks toolbar. Just click the bookmarklet to mark the current page for later reading. Log in to Instapaper’s website to view your pages and to view them. It also has features for viewing saved pages on the iPhone and iPod Touch with or without an internet connection.
There are other similar services. Here are some of them:
You will often find Firefox Add-ons, Ubiquity commands, and bookmarklets to make it easy to mark pages. Some are developed by the services themselves; some are developed by third parties.