The Read It Later blog covered the read-later app's updates, Apple App Store issues, and data on mobile reading habits.
HN links it mostly as a read-later bookmarking tool, often as an answer to bookmarking questions and compared with Instapaper and Evernote.
I use the Evernote plugin for saving random snippets of interesting text I might want one day; and for pages I'll want to visit in the next 6 months, I use 'Read It Later' http://readitlaterlist.com/
What's so nice about read it later is that it's quicker than regular bookmarks. I hit alt-w to add current page to the list, alt-w to remove it when I'm done, and that's it.
The regular bookmarks are heavyweight enough that I just wouldn't do that. (And this allows a nice division between regular bookmarks, links I'll be using for years, and RIL bookmarks, which I could get rid of anytime as soon as I finish with them. I could do that with folders, and that's how RIL works behind the scenes, but that's still more heavyweight.)
There are other features, like auto-saving the pages to disk for offline access, or a personal RSS feed, and integration with various Web 2.0 thingies - but that the core functionality is so quick and easy is the greatest part about it.
I find it disingenious to claim apps don't need to be free, when you built a successful app that already has followers (thanks to the lite version also...) and is highly regarded in tech spheres. Would he have done his experiment on a new app with a new concept, it would have a lot more credibility.
I actually downloaded the lite version a long long time ago, and I wouldn't have if it wasn't free.
Update: btw the 'Read it later' link is broken in the OP, it should be http://readitlaterlist.com/ .The app developper should really buy the readitlater.com domain if he can...
Would you use it if you could configure your own delay period?
I've tried to come up with a way to change it for each page you submit, but I haven't come up with anything that doesn't require pop-ups or page refreshes. I really would like to keep the UI as simple as possible. Is it too much work for the user to add the delay to the end of the url, ie example.com#DaysToSend=1, hit refresh, then hit the bookmarklet?
is there a service that sends me daily summary email with links?
That sounds alot like Read it Later: http://readitlaterlist.com/.
Same here. The first couple of days it was out I used it a lot - especially the HN feed. However, I realized I missed the comments and I switched back using HN via the web.
Also, the endless "RT by @blahblah" list of users on the right column for each story is basically useless clutter.
I use Read Later instead of instapaper, same thing, I just like the FF plugin it offers:
http://readitlaterlist.com/
Its funny, when I built LookLater a few years ago the Instapaper/ReadLater use case is I guess really what I had in my mind.
Uh, I massively dislike working with a fat bunch of windows. How can the title of one Firefox window as tab group can be as expressive as a group of tabs you've persisted in Tab Candy with your own label?
Indeed I do. One of these days I'll get around to adding an extension that allows me to queue links without opening them in tabs.
If you don't know any, i like Read it Later(http://readitlaterlist.com/).
Anything better out there?
Oh if you register even these guys do. http://readitlaterlist.com/
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.