There are so many things to read on the web – tech news, links from friends and blogs – and I’d open them, “hmm looks interesting, will read them later” but never could find time to do so in day.
grokked: hi, do you know any web service that can add arbitary web pages to an RSS feed? like i have a whole bunch of pages open in my browser and i want to just add them into google reader for review later
me: maybe can email urself the page or soemthing.. or maybe delicious them. that’s also an RSS
grokked: i was thinking more of the actual page appearing within google reader… this only give me urls
me: hmmm
And hence an experimental feature was quietly launched: The “read later” bookmarklet – Click on the bookmarklet and SharedCopy will stash the page somewhere for you to read later, in your favourite feed reader:
Try it out! You can find your own “read later” feed at the bottom of your account “Settings” page 
Tags: read-later
March 21, 2008 at 12:12 am
Marco Arment, the lead developer at Tumblr, created a very similar service called Instapaper. http://www.instapaper.com/
I’m not sure if it provides an RSS feed, though.
March 24, 2008 at 11:51 pm
“Read later” re-uses the existing feed reading habits & tools for best effect. So RSS provides the syndication, existing feed readers provide “read/unread” management. Why reinvent the wheel?
June 12, 2008 at 9:21 pm
the most important aspect: this is not a “keep a list of unread links” feature. this is a list of unread *pages*
difference being, whether you can read things [later] offline or not.
http://www.vimeo.com/1162250