One of my favourite and most essential apps is [Instapaper](http://instapaper.com) and I’ve always got loads of articles saved there. This summer or even spring I realized the default number of articles downloaded to the iPhone app was 250 and… I was above that! Since then I’ve made a concerted effort to lower that number and I’m now under 120, hoping to get it to under 100 asap. Mini bug; I like to know how I’m doing and there’s no total count anywhere in the interface. [Marco did that on purpose](http://twitter.com/#!/marcoarment/status/154285101361016832) so I won’t ask him to change it but I’d like to have the total and each time going to the last page and counting what’s left + adding 40 article per page is a bit redundant. So I coded up a quick bookmarklet to count it for me and I thought I’d share. Just drag [this link](<javascript:(function(e,a,g,h,f,c,b,d){if(!(f=e.jQuery)||g>f.fn.jquery||h(f)){c=a.createElement(“script”);c.type=“text/javascript”;c.src=“http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/”+g+“/jquery.min.js”;c.onload=c.onreadystatechange=function(){if(!b&&(!(d=this.readyState)||d==“loaded”||d==“complete”)){h((f=e.jQuery).noConflict(1),b=1);f(c).remove()}};a.documentElement.childNodes[0].appendChild(c)}})(window,document,“1.3.2”,function($,L){var inpage=$(‘.tableViewCellTitleLink’).length;var url=window.location.pathname;var page=url.substring(url.lastIndexOf(‘/’) + 1);var total = ((page-1)*40)+inpage;$(‘#content’).append(‘<div id=“countresult” style=“display:none;position: absolute;top:55px;left:-170px;text-align:center;border:2px solid #ccc;background-color:#efefef;padding:20px;text-transform:uppercase;font-size:14px;”>’ + total + ’ articles</div>‘);$(’#countresult’).fadeIn(‘slow’);});>) to your bookmarks bar, navigate to the last page of your unread Instapaper articles and click. The bookmarklet adds a little layer in the page with the total number of articles left. It’s tested in Safari, period. Probably not as clean as it could be either. Quickly pulled together using [Ben Alman’s jQuery bookmarklet generator](http://benalman.com/projects/run-jquery-code-bookmarklet/).