I'm Sorry But What's The Point Of Reading List?

[John Mang]

It's practically just a fancy looking bookmark. It's sad really, if it had offline viewing, it would make sense; but that's the thing, it doesn't! Well I guess it's back to saving webpages for me..

 

[Jagardn]

You should be able to save it to your Reader List, they'll even sync with your iPhone and iPad when iCloud starts up. You should probably learn to use it before trashing it. Just sayin.

 

[DannySmurf]

It's practically just a fancy looking bookmark. It's sad really, if it had offline viewing, it would make sense; but that's the thing, it doesn't! Well I guess it's back to saving webpages for me..

The point is that the pages disappear from the list once you've read them. They don't hang around forever.

It'll be more useful when iOS5 comes out this fall.

 

[TheGdog]

Offline mode would be a must IMO. I can't really see myself using it. However if you want to save stuff for offline reading try Evernote.

 

[DirtySocks85]

Personally I use ReadItLater right now to do this exact thing, so I'll give Reading List a try. Sometimes you don't have time to read something right away (I find this to be the case with a majority of things people link to on Twitter), but you want to come back to them later at your leisure, but making a formal bookmark for them would be overkill.

 

[Phlebas8717]

It seems like a good idea to me. For years, I have had a bookmark folder called "Interesting Things" that I use for articles that I come across and want to read, but don't have the time to do at the moment. I do feel bad for the Instapaper people though. It must suck to have you idea stolen like that.

 

[John Mang]

See people do get what I was saying.. anyway you guys are absolutely right. It would be quite useful when iCloud comes around, but without it seems rather pointless. I think for the average user without a iPhone or iPad, they should've added a offline reader feature.

 

[benj07]

Extremely useful feature, in my opinion. Shift + Click makes it really easy to save pages for later reading.

 

[Cinder6]

I think it's a nice way to bookmark things you'll read once and not have to deal with the clunkier bookmark manager.

 

[rickhorn]

it's a temporary bookmark for anything interesting for about a day or two.

 

[Fliesen]

See people do get what I was saying.. anyway you guys are absolutely right. It would be quite useful when iCloud comes around, but without it seems rather pointless. I think for the average user without a iPhone or iPad, they should've added a offline reader feature.

also, you can add pages to your reading list by simply shift-clicking the link.

it's far more comfortable than bookmarking and the entire point is them being a 'read later' feature for sharing those links with your other iOS devices.