I've been accumulating bookmarks for a long time, and often wished that I could save some of that collective wisdom into a more enduring form. With the new Instapaper API, I've finally found a way.

Over the weekend I hacked together Octavore, a mashup of Instapaper and Lulu, a self-publishing website. Now anyone can get their own personalized, dead-tree copy of the Internet's finest! Get a real copy of your favorite articles, stories, and essays for only $12.

Notes: It's built on Rails, so it might be a little bit slow as both the book generation and publishing take a while to complete and block the server while processing. There's no background workers or anything fancy as I only worked with what I knew to get it up quickly.

This is my first publicly launched weekend project, and I'm really excited. Comments, criticisms, and suggestions are all especially welcome, thanks!

http://octavore.com