Should I Use the Read Me Later Add-on ?

Some buzz was recently created around a new Firefox add-on called Read Me Later published on IdeaShower. The add-on lets the user add websites that he find interesting to a Read Me Later list which acts as a storage for all those links. The idea is not bad at all because I often find myself in a position where I’m unable to read through a website at the moment.

The Firefox add-on  adds two buttons to the navigation toolbar which are called Read Later and Reading List. The Read Later button adds the active URL to the Reading List where they can be loaded again at a later time. Bookmarks can be synced by using browser syncing tools and are accessible as well in your Bookmarks folder.

The main problem that I encountered while using the add-on was that it was not possible to move the Reading List button from the navigation toolbar to another toolbar. I do not use the navigation toolbar at all and it is kinda puzzling that one can only move the Read Later button.

I therefor decided to stick with my usual way of storing interesting links. I have a folder in the bookmarks toolbar that is called temp and I add all bookmarks to it of websites that look interesting but cannot be read at the moment.

The benefits of this procedure are that I’m not forced to use the navigation toolbar and have more space in my other toolbar.