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4.0 out of 5 stars
Reviewed Dec 2, 2011
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Read It Later

com.ideashower.readitlater.pro

Read It Later Pro1.3

$3

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Read It Later lets you save webpages to read later, even without an internet connection.

It has been called "a DVR for the web" by the New York Times, Business Week, Time, TechCrunch and more.

When you come across an article or a webpage you'd like to read but can't at that time, save it to your Read It Later list. You can then read it whenever you have a moment - whether it's on the couch, during your commute, on the plane, train, or practically anywhere. This allows you to eliminate the cluttering of bookmarks and inboxes with links that are merely of a one-time interest. It's like a staging area for bookmarks.

ONE READING LIST, EVERYWHERE YOU ARE

View or add to your reading list on any computer or mobile device. You can save articles from practically anywhere: your computer, browser, phone, mobile device, and even from within over 130 applications that have Read It Later Support. All of your computers and devices are tied together by a single account which means you can save an article from work or home and read it on your phone or tablet. Read It Later even remembers your scroll position in every article so you can start reading on your computer, grab your phone and pick up exactly where you left off.

CLEAN, BEAUTIFUL ARTICLES

Read articles in Read It Later’s beautiful Article View. Content is distilled to show only the words, images, captions and videos from an article. This gives a clean, consistent reading experience no matter where the article came from. You can adjust the text size, font, alignment and more.

OFFLINE, READ WITHOUT INTERNET

Read It Later downloads all of your articles for offline reading. You can view your articles even when away from an internet connection, which is perfect for reading on the plane, train or your daily commute. Read It Later can download both the complete webpage and the Article View for reading offline.

STAY ORGANIZED

You can search, sort, and even tag the items in your list. All of your read articles are archived so you can quickly dig up anything you read in the past!

Recent changes:

New Image Viewer feature allows easy viewing of images in your articles.

Improved encoding support will ensure a much better experience for viewing non-English websites.

Several other improvements and bug fixes.

For a complete list: http://readitlaterlist.com/changelog/android-1-3.php

Content rating: Everyone

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Read It Later Pro Review

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Read It Later Pro is a very capable app, though doesn't have many more features than the free version.

by Erez Zukerman, PCWorld

Read It Later (RIL) offers an easy way to create a reading list of articles that you didn’t have time to read when you first came across them (say, at work). You can add articles to your Read It Later queue from a host of desktop and Web applications, such as Google Chrome, Firefox, Pulse Reader, and almost 300 other apps.

Read It Later Pro, RIL’s official mobile client, lets you manage your reading list and read articles you’ve been meaning to get to. The idea is that you launch Read it Later Pro when you have a few moments to kill--and instantly you get something interesting to read.

In practice, Read It Later Pro works quite well. When I added an article from my desktop via Chrome, it instantly showed up on the Android client’s reading list. Tapping its title in the reading list took me to a mobile-optimized view of the text, including images.

The mobile view was easy to read, but not perfect: The original article I tested was a Wikipedia link, and though the text was formatted to fit the phone’s narrow screen, a very wide blank margin to the right made scrolling a bit awkward because I could scroll horizontally (into the blank space) as well as vertically. When I scrolled all the way down, I discovered that the margin was due to a single long link in the source article – something that RIL ought to have handled more gracefully.

I previously used RIL as a queue for websites I wanted to visit; thus, my reading list was full of irrelevant links to websites (rather than useful links to articles). When I used RIL’s website to wipe the list clean, the mobile version did not correctly sync with it; in fact, the mobile app still tried to download the contents of my old list even after I’d cleared it.

RIL’s free version works just as well as the paid one. The only major difference is that the $3 Pro version lets you filter your reading list by title, URL or tag--a feature that most users may not care about. The most compelling reason to buy RIL Pro is to support the developer--but for me, that’s reason enough to purchase this handy app.