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Last week, we introduced The Digg Social Reader, an application that allows readers to easily record the stories they’re reading on Digg and make them available to friends on Facebook.

When you click on a Digg story on Facebook, you see a story in the Digg Newsbar; a bar across the top of your browser that shows the reader how popular the story is across social media as well as a similar story that may be of interest.

This week, I'm happy to say we've added an option for all users to view stories with the Newsbar. Anywhere you see a list of stories — including Top News, My News, Newswire and the Newsrooms — you can now directly access that story in the Newsbar.

We believe this is the best way to read content, interact with the Digg community via comments, share to Facebook and Twitter and access related stories all from your browser.

If you want to navigate directly to the story’s web page without the Newsbar, click on the icon next to the title.

When Newsbar is enabled, that icon is white.

We understand Newsbar may not be your preference. For logged in-users, we will enable you to choose and customize what experience you like best. For users who do not want to use Newsbar, we have created a new option where you can disable the feature directly from your settings.

You will know if Newsbar is disabled, if the icon to the right of the story headlines is black.

Finally, if you would like to share headlines to your Timeline on a case by case basis, you can turn off Newsbar in your settings ( see above) and simply click the black icon to the right of the story to launch Newsbar and record that read.

Later this week, we will also begin rolling out this feature for logged-out users so that every reader coming to Digg can discover content in the same way.

We're excited about this feature and hope you agree. Keep the feedback coming at ideas.digg.com.