Just today, Char over at The Peacock King added bookmarking functionality to their site. Registered users of The Peacock King now have the ability to bookmark any post on the site, and anything you bookmark shows up under a "My Bookmarks" section of the user's control panel.

This is great for someone like me -- it may be a week or more before I come back to the site to read a new chapter, so being able to save my place is a big help, and ensures that I don't abandon the story halfway through just because I forgot my place. Further, since there seems to be no limit to the number of bookmarks I can have, I can bookmark certain chapters that I find notable or interesting.

Since bookmarks in Drupal are only available to registered users, they become a selling-point for getting your readers to register for an account. If you add the feature, be sure to let readers know about it.

If you want to see how it works, hop over to The Peacock King using the link above or the image to your right and register for an account. It's free and you'll get to read what is, in my opinion, one of the best pieces of weblit writing on the web right now.

The bookmarks module for Drupal 6 can be found here, and the developers of the plugin have said it'll be fully supported in Drupal 7 by the time D7 launches. There's also a Drupal 5 version, which I'm going to try to implement here on GabrielGadfly.com, but I haven't taken a look at it yet.

Wordpress users can sort of emulate the functionality with the Instapaper Read Later Links plugin, though it relies on the user opening an account at the third-party Instapaper site.

Blogger users, I'm afraid you're on your own. I don't know enough about that format to know if there's anything that could possibly emulate this functionality for you.