working on: organizing reading material
I have pretty much broken myself of the "print and save" habit; now I'm into "printing it to PDF, saving it in my documents folder, and never looking at it again" habit. Woo hoo!
Yesterday I mentioned my new eco-safe widget that allows you to print anything on this blog (I imagine you want to do this all the time) and then you can save it, read it, clutter up your hard drive with it — whatever you like.
I tried it out myself and it seemed great, then I went to my e-mail and waited … and waited … and waited … Well. Not such a great service if your PDF file never arrives! Those of you to whom I refer as "techno savvy" probably know how this story ends. Yes, the file was in my bulk/spam folder. Where it always is. I never learn. Moral: Add Eco-Safe to your contacts, and enjoy.
Here are two more useful tools for saving things to read later:
• Firefox add-on Read It Later — nifty cool, gives you a sort of impermanent set of bookmarks for things you want to read when you have time but not save forever. I need this, as I have about 608 things bookmarked — not even counting my del.icio.us links. Sigh.
• Instapaper — I like this. It takes all the things I want to read later and makes them into a little newspaper deal for me. Check it out.
Lori
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Reader Comments (2)
Also meant to point you to Goodreads.com; superior to an Amazon library list in that you can keep several there and get recommendations from other readers you select. My six year old writes one line reviews of his latest reads on his account. I love having an accurate list of what I read last year, etc. Check it out.
i LOVE the idea of putting the kids on there! they could recommend books to each other in a penpal sort of way. we should totally set that up!
i will figure it out & put my info on here. xo