Marking a piece read hides it from the front page and the sections
The single biggest value: the site shows only what the reader has not yet read. Every card and list row carries the piece's id; the reader's log (already in localStorage) hides read ones, leaves a one-line clue ("3 read pieces hidden · show") and a page listing everything read, in order, with undo.
Done when: front page, News, Perspective, Maps, Signals, Editions, History and the reading room all hide read items in the reader's view; the count and the link are shown; nothing is hidden in the editor's view.