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I just noticed one big difference between reading books and web content. I found a link to the Story of Maxis Software on Metafilter. I started reading it, but realized it was lengthy and I would rather read it later. So I saved it as a bookmark. But I saved the first page as a bookmark, not where I was, because that’s how I use bookmarks in my browser. What I need is a true bookmarking system where I can save the entry page as a permanent bookmark and also easily tag where I stopped reading. Should I just make another bookmark? They’re “free” after all. Could there be a better way to do this? Browser “bookmarks” just aren’t really like bookmarks, unless you think of The Web as one huge book (which was the idea, I guess). Web sites are more like books and the web is a huge, interwoven library.

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