Reading.am

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Reading.am is a bookmark service that started as a silo and was released as open source code after it was announced the service would be shutting down on 2022-06-30.

• Service: at https://www.reading.am will be taken offline 2022-06-30.
• Code: https://github.com/reading-am

How To

Export your data

If you’d like to download your bookmarks, you can do so in HTML, CSV, and JSON formats at this link: https://www.reading.am/settings/extras

Shutdown

• Announced site shutdown on 2022-06-30 via Twitter https://twitter.com/reading/status/1532360247779676161
  • "I’m sunsetting http://Reading.am at the end of this month. Thanks to everyone who participated—I really enjoyed building things with and for you. Data exports are available and I’ll be around for support and questions. —@leppert" @reading June 2, 2022
• https://twitter.com/reading/status/494551445291532288
  • "In light of Icebergs shutting down, this is a reminder that Reading is run by a single person who pays for the servers because he likes you." @reading July 30, 2014

Features

Reading.am has a focused feature set that made it attractive to use:

• bookmark functionality for read posts about content on the web, primarily geared toward indicating "what you are reading right now."
• RSS feed
• posting via email
• export in HTML, JSON, or CSV
• webhook: https://www.reading.am/footnotes/url

Not what you like. Not what you find interesting. Just what you're reading.

The service provided hooks as well as an RSS feed for syndicating content from the service to multiple other silos. The service also had some reasonable data portability with bookmarklets, browser extensions, posting via email, and export via HTML, JSON, and CSV.

Reading.am also supported listening posts as well for .mp3 files and a form of watch post for pages (like YouTube) with obvious video content.

IndieWeb Examples

• Chris Aldrich uses Reading.am to PESOS what he's reading to his personal site [1]
• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

See Also

• reading
• bookmark
• listen
• watch
• site deaths
• https://twitter.com/martijnvdven/status/930878863302971392 Current Firefox extension is outdated
• https://github.com/reading-am/reading-extensions/pull/1#issuecomment-345412360 Fixed Firefox extension is en route.