Ah InstaPaper they are very similar. But I found the readitlater plugin better (readitlaterlist.com)
- One you don't necessarily have to register and all that. Its not yet another community. You are just an anonymous user.
- There is an offline reading mode which comes in very handy. You have anyway loaded that page might as well cache it for a while.
you don't have to register to use Instapaper. You can use it right away and then "ask for a password" to access it from any device you want. And there is no community here. People can't see your bookmarks.
Yes, but one nice thing about InstaPaper being a web app is you can use it from a number of devices: desktop, laptop, iPhone, etc are all automatically synced since they use the same account.
That is why the highlight around firefox plugin. Rest they are very similar.
Any user account based system becomes an unnecessary overhead for something so transient. If you really like the post you would post it to your delicious account anyway.
The one you just want to check out a browser based cache is good enough. Most would be discarded anyway.
It's close enough to be moot, But I think that getting Instapaper running is faster and takes less time, and registration is included.
I think that signing up for Instapaper is faster even than installing a browser plugin. It's the single fastest registration process I know. And the system works much more efficiently than this one seems to: for one thing, you can use it in Safari. For me that's a winning feature.
Not that this is even worth battling over, since it's whatever floats your boat, but it should be noted that Read It Later's online version works in all browsers (including Safari) and it has bookmarklets for those as well.
That's why I like Read It Later, it has the same features as the other services (Instapaper, Laterloop) but it's Firefox extension has a lot of awesome features for when you are in Firefox.
This really isn't worth the fight, so I'll mention that Instapaper has a much better-designed site, and it has a groovy iPhone app that I now swear by.
I used to use Read it later, but it was really buggy; it had a habit of overwriting saved pages so the page would have one title but a different URL. The developers were aware of the problem but seemed to be having problems fixing it. I highly recommend Taboo however, it's a similar plugin I found later that also has an excellent mechanism for showing all the pages in your queue: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5756
