About Eardogger

What's Eardogger?

Eardogger is a bookmark tool for binge-reading comics and books on the web.

I made it because there's lots of nice ways to follow an ongoing comic, but I couldn't find a nice way to catch up on a backlog. I kept losing my place, especially if I tried to pick up reading again on a different device.

Normal web browser bookmarks were too fiddly. I wanted them to just act like the old bus pass that marks my place in a physical book: there's one bookmark, and you move it to your new spot when you pause.

So Eardogger does that.

How to Use It

  1. Sign up for a free account.
  2. Install the "Mark my spot" and "Where was I" bookmarklets on all your devices and browsers.
  3. To pause whatever you're reading, click "Mark my spot."
    • This updates your existing bookmark in just one click! (Or, if you didn't have a bookmark for that site yet, it'll ask you to make one.)
  4. The Eardogger homepage has a list of what you've been reading lately.
  5. If you left a tab open but then read further in that site on another device, click "Where was I" to catch up.

News

June 8, 2024

For reasons that I promise make sense from a certain perspective, I've chosen to rewrite Eardogger from the ground up, replacing Node.js and PostgreSQL with Rust and Sqlite. I doubt you'll notice much difference when using the site. I had to make everyone log in again, but your personal bookmarklets should all still work as normal.

If you're the type of pervert who is into that sort of thing, I wrote a bit more about the why and the wherefore over on my journal, but the main upshot is that I've unlocked Scavenger Mode and can now run the site in a much wider range of hosting environments. (In fact, it's happily running on some old-fashioned shared web hosting at DreamHost, which I wrote off as infeasible several years back.)

But it's not only arcana this time around — I actually added a couple real features while I was in the mix:

Old news, aka "history"

Colophon

If you ever want to see how I did something, feel free to peruse the source code:

Who're you, again?

I'm Nick F (any pronouns), a writer, programmer, and miscellaneist. I'm learning to make video games, I review books on my journal, I like backpacking with my partner Ruth, I like to run, and I can bake very good bread.