[icc97]

I did try to apply this somewhat - I would by default list all my bookmarks as 'to read'. Then I didn't feel the need to read them, just dump them and get on with my life.

Then if I ever came back to them, then I would mark them as read and star them.

However I found this doesn't really cure the addiction (I still would endlessly go searching and bookmarking articles.), but it did help and got me less precious about dumping an article.

So I think you do have to go through this stage.

Hoever now, I'm simply trying to make it harder for myself to bookmark (only manually via the 'add URL' link in pinboard), so I now end up only bookmarking about 1 in 3 of the articles I open. I'm less concerned about just closing the tab.