







After more than five years of operation, the Readability article bookmarking/read-it-later service will be shutting down after September…
Rethinking the human-readability infrastructure
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What’s Happening to Reading?
For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.

Out of sight and out of mind: Bookmarks are created but not used - Ofer Bergman, Steve Whittaker, Joel Schooler, 2021
Users commonly report problems in refinding important websites. To address this, some create Bookmarks (also called web Favorites) to improve the refinding of t...

Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction by Mairead Small Staid
February 8, 2019 – Twenty-five years ago, Sven Birkerts published “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age.” Have his fears and projections come to pass?

Letting things build
This week I put together a reading list for my digital aura series. I recall starting to write around Thanksgiving — but when I looked back at my reading, I’d started reading for it months earlier. (No wonder it’s felt like such a big endeavor!)
linkding
A self-hosted bookmarking service that is designed to be minimal, fast and easy to set up.
Standard Reader · blog index
Standardizing Bookmarks in the Atmosphere - Wesley's notes
a mini proposal for a shared bookmark lexicon
Anthony Wehnert on Instagram: "Never using normal bookmarks again"
anthonywehnert on February 25, 2026: "Never using normal bookmarks again".

Skyreader update - Bookmark syncing to Semble/Margin and Standard Reader Collections support - Skyreader Dev Log
Sync your reading list across the Atmosphere. Read magazine-like collections.
I stopped my Kindle from opening other books until I’ve finished the current one
You can read me like a (currently) open book.

Thoughts on Bookmarking the Web - Henrique Dias
Yesterday I shared some atmospheric thoughts. One of the ideas was seeing which services do I use now that could be replaced. One of those is bookmarking. There’s two main contenders: Margin and Semble.
New post on the @cosmik.network blog: who ever heard of bookmarks that can help *shorten* your reading list? On how bookmarks, combined with social curation networks like @semble.so, can be much more than bookmarks - they can be sensors! blog.cosmik.network/sensors-not-bookmarks
Sensors, not just bookmarks [Patterns of Sensemaking #1]
blog.cosmik.networkv1.122 is rolling out today, featuring a better way to discover and share articles, blog posts and newsletters across the Atmosphere via new, dynamic Standard.site link cards. 🧵