If you’re anything like me, you’re constantly being sent, or finding accidentally, interesting links that are just too lengthy to sit down and read right this very minute (or you’ve tried, and then wondered why you got nothing done today).

What do you do with the links you don’t have time for?

Do you stick them in a Later Reading bookmarks folder that you end up never visiting again, except bi-annually when you have a look and think “why on earth did I keep all these?” and delete the lot?

Do you stick them in del.icio.us only to forget what you tagged them with or that you’ve even got something in there you haven’t actually read yet?

Or do you faithfully attempt to read each and every one there and then, regardless of how late you are or how little you’ve done today?

Well a new firefox plugin called Readeroo just might be your salvation. It’s certainly revolutionised the way I organise my online time and stopped it becoming overwhelming.

The idea is that it combines with your del.icio.us account (you can always set one up if you don’t have one) to become a very effective “To Read” list.

You populate the list with the articles found when you are busy with a one button click, and it stores them in your del.icio.us account with the tag toread (you can also set it to be “not shared” – handy for those of us who publish our del.icio.us links on our blog, but aren’t comfortable publishing something you haven’t actually read yet and might not even like).

When you’ve got some free time and fancy catching up with your browsing, you click the Readeroo “Read” button and it brings up one of the pages you stored. You can set it to retrieve pages at random, first in last out, or last in first out. The choice is yours. Once you’ve read it, it either deletes the page from del.icio.us or changes the tag to donereading according to preference.

I rather like it being set to random – a sort of personally tailored StumbleUpon for pages you already know you want to read at some point.