It happens to all of us. We go online just to check our e-mail and nothing else. In an instant we are inundated with news, entertainment and an article on “The top 10 true urban myths” — so much reading and so little time. This is where www.readitlaterlist.com comes in.
With a free account, the site allows you to create a list of bookmarks that you can access anytime you are connected to the Internet. On your own browser, you can drag a “Read It Later” button to your bookmarks bar to bookmark pages you want to check out later.
The best thing about the site is that you can download apps to use it with nearly every Web-browsing piece of technology out there. With apps created by users, you can view and save bookmarks on Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, iPad and more.
If you’re willing to lend out some cash, you can enhance your Read It Later experience. For $5, Read It Later Digest automatically groups your bookmarks by topic and arranges them into your own newspaper instead of a list.
The site’s only downfall is that you can’t read your bookmarks offline unless you use Firefox, an iPhone or an iPad. But this shouldn’t be a problem if you almost always have Internet access.
With Read It Later, you don’t have to have a long list of unread bookmarks in your favorites menu, and you can more easily resist the temptation to read funny articles for 20 minutes when you should be doing homework.
