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[cliquez ici pour passer en français]
Reader Helper is a standalone OS X application dedicated to a rather specific workflow centered around Google Reader — in other words, it might be right for you, or it might not.
The application displays the regular Google Reader interface in its main window (with an option to execute custom JavaScript, à la GreaseMonkey, and with a button to install Helvetireader directly); a separate window lists incoming links that you want to read later. When you click a link in Google Reader, instead of opening immediately, it is added to the links window; once you’re done skimming the titles in Reader, you can close the main window, and use the sidebar to open in your usual web browser the links you want to read more thoroughly.
Once read, links remain in the sidebar just in case, but marked as read, until you click the "Purge Read Articles" button at the bottom (or you can Command-click a link to mark it as unread). You can also choose whether the default action is to add a link to the sidebar or to open it in your browser; in any case, Command-clicking a link in Google Reader does the opposite action.
You can also add links manually by drag-and-dropping them (from another browser, or from the Finder) onto the links list or onto the application’s Dock icon.
The links list is backed up in a sqlite database (using Gus Mueller’s FMDB library) so that you shouldn’t ever run the risk of losing the links.