I use the awesome website Instapaper.com to keep track of articles that I want to read.

For those who aren’t in the know, Instapaper will take any website article, convert it to a readable format (that is, strip out ads, sidebars, and other extraneous crap), and store a link to it in your Instapaper account so you can read it later. You can read your saved articles on your computer screen, or even on your iPhone or Kindle.

They offer a javascript bookmarklet for instantly saving any webpage that you come across for later perusing. Which is great, but was a problem for me because I seem to hit it accidentally more often than I do on-purposely. So I made a change.

I’ve altered the Instapaper bookmarklet so that it displays a confirmation box (i.e. “Are you sure you want to add this article, or are you just clicking all willy-nilly again?”). Here’s how:

This is the code for my modified Instapaper bookmarklet, with my personal account code stripped out and replaced with YOUR_INSTAPAPER_CODE. You’ll want to put your code in its place.

javascript:function iprl5(){var d=document,z=d.createElement('scr'+'ipt'),b=d.body;try{if(!b)throw(0);d.title='(Saving...) '+d.title;z.setAttribute('src','http://www.instapaper.com/j/YOUR_INSTAPAPER_CODE?u='+encodeURIComponent(d.location.href)+'&t='+(new Date().getTime()));b.appendChild(z);}catch(e){alert('Please wait until the page has loaded.');}}if (confirm('Fer Shure?')){iprl5();}void(0)