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Cool site and iPhone/iTouch app

I found this great iPhone app and web site that does exactly what I do in normal usage … I open up lots of links from various places to read later.

Unfortunately on the iPhone/touch this is very painful as you can only have 8 pages open and even though you have visited a web page completely, when you are offline and you revist the page all the content has disappeared and requires re-downloading (doesnt mobile Safari cache anything?!?!). This was particularly painful for me when on holiday recently with intermittant WiFi connection.

With the great ReadItLaterList.com bookmarklets you can tap any link within Safari and ‘save’ it for later, I even found a twitter client that allows links to be opened or ‘saved’ for later using this service.

They even have an iPhone app that downloads all the content of your ‘reading list’ and caches it for offline reading later on … brilliant, exactly what I wanted.

I suggest you give it a try, it really is quite useful.