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vexorg

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Aug 4, 2009
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I've searched and can't find much on it. What is the difference?

How does it decide what a site is stored as when I hit the '+' in the address bar?
How do I move them from reading list to bookmarks?
 
They are essentially the same thing, as they are both ways of saving webpages for later viewing. However, they serve different purposes (at least IMO).

Bookmarks are for quickly accessing sites you frequently visit (for me, some examples are facebook.com and gawker.com)

Reading List is for saving a specific article or listing for later reading (where as gawker.com is one of my Bookmarks, I would use Reading List to save a specific Gawker article that I wanted to read later).

Really you can use them however you want, this is just what works for me. Hope that helps.
 
Does that mean reading lists cache the pages on your mac for offline use?
 
Safari > Help > Search > reading list
> Help Topics > Keep a reading list in Safari > answer to your question
 
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