Final Fantasy-inspired Bookmark Saves Your Progress

Fans of the Final Fantasy series will recognize this blue box right away. I know that it is burned into my subconscious thanks to many hours of playing. It is that box that asks whether you’d like to save your progress or not. Naturally when reading a book, you can save your progress too. Or lose your page. Save it with this bookmark.

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Olly Moss made this familiar box into a bookmark for Urban Outfitters. What’s that? Final Fantasy isn’t your cup of nerd tea? Well, you can always design a bookmark based on the save game boxes of other games if you want. Go to Kotaku to download an image and print your own. How cool is that?

This one has to be the best bookmark ever though. It brings back so many gaming memories.

[via Nerd Approved]

Reading Is Cool: Cassette Tape Bookmarks

Cassette Tape Bookmark

Bookmarks don’t get any more adorable than these. The Cassette Tape bookmarks are inspired by their namesake, which used to be all the rage before CDs and MP3s came along. People don’t make mixed tapes anymore; they’re simply mixes now. People don’t even read physical books as much as before, since e-readers have taken center stage.

If you’re one of the few (or shall I say many?) who prefer flipping through actual pages instead of swiping through virtual ones, then what can be a more appropriate bookmark than this? It’s got a vintage feel and you have to admit, it looks awesome.

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The Cassette Tape bookmarks have magnets on the inside, so it stays securely on the page where you left off. They’re available in sets of three and are priced at $6.

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eBookmark Bridges eBooks and Real Books

Like many of us, Terry Burton and Jinna Kim find themselves witnessing – and contributing to – the slow but inevitable death of paper books. The husband and wife team decided to make a functional artwork that bridges the gap between eBooks and their ancestors. Their eBookmark not only lets you save a book page, it also lets you specify the paragraph where you stopped. How does it work? With a minimalist touch interface, of course.

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The eBookmark has a balsa wood body. Inside are LEDs, a touch-sensitive strip, a battery and an Atmel 8-bit processor. It also has a switch up top for pointing out either the left or right page and can be extended to accommodate larger books.

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I know that Terry and Jinna made the eBookmark as an artistic statement, but it would’ve been nicer if it had a motion sensor that caused the LEDs to turn on only when the book is opened. If you’re actually looking for a more precise bookmark, check out this bookmark by Fred & Friends.

[via 7 Electrons via Hack A Day]

Mummify Lets You Store Permanent Copies of Web Pages

Sometimes, bookmarking a website just isn’t enough. A permanent copy is different from a physical copy, so printing the page just isn’t the same as actually saving it. Of course, you could also choose to save the entire page with all the elements on your computer, but if you plan to do that with a lot of pages, then that could turn into a confusing mess of files and folders pretty quickly.

So why don’t you Mummify it instead?

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Mummify is a service that lets you save and store complete copies of web pages on their online servers. There won’t be any extra folders to monitor, no files to trace, and no printouts to monitor. Plus, they’re offering the service for free – at least, for the first 10 pages that you choose to Mummify. It’ll cost you $10 to $15 a month for up to 50 mummified pages per month.

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All you have to do is enter the URL of the site you want to save to Mummify’s system. It will then give you a shortlink directing to the page or a cache of it, in case the page moves, changes, or no longer exists. Keep in mind that dynamically-generated content which is pushed to the page view JavaScript probably won’t be properly cached by the service.

You can check out and try Mummify here.

[via Red Ferret]

Pinterest rolls out revamped pins for articles, aims to grab more of your bookmarks

Pinterest rolls out revamped pins for articles, aims to become a better bookmark service

It's not yet directly challenging the likes of Pocket or Instapaper, but Pinterest has taken a step in that direction today. The social networking site has announced that it's begun rolling out a new type of "pin" for articles, which will include things like the headline, author and a short description or excerpt of the article right in the pin (as seen above). Where it differs from other "read it later" services is that it doesn't pull down the entire article for you to read later -- you still need to click through to the original site. As you may recall, this latest move follows an expansion of another sort just last week: an "experiment" with promoted pins. According to the company, Pinterest users should start seeing the new feature on the web immediately, with a rollout to its mobile apps promised soon.

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Instapaper launches on Android devices

Instapaper launches on Android

Instapaper creator Marco Arment has been kept so busy with the iOS version that he decided to contract out the Android iteration to Mobelux. Fortunately, this is the same developer that crafted Tumblr apps for both the iPhone and Android, so we can breathe a collective sigh of relief. Available today, priced just shy of $3, Instapaper ties together one of iOS' favorites with Android's capacity for sharing across multiple apps. It arrives cocooned in a decidedly classy UI, even on our Gingerbread devices -- although it does get a little squashed in some sub-menus. As long as you're running an Android version higher than 2.2, hit up the source below to give it a try.

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