How to Save and Read Offline webpages in iPhone
By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News NetworkThursday, April 9, 2009
Suppose you are reading something in the internet and then you gotta go. You don’t want to bookmark it but save the page down to your iPhone and read it later. Though there are other annoying and faulty processes, there is a new free iPhone app too which makes it easier. Read It Later lets you save pages to read later, even without an internet connection. It will download offline copies of your pages so you can still view webpages when you are offline.It has different reading options too.
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Text-Only
ViewOffline text-only view offers easy reading for most articles. Options to change font size, font, and set the screen to a white on black ‘night mode.
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Fullscreen View (Only in Pro)
Maximize your reading space with the optional Fullscreen Reader view. After opening a page, the toolbars will move off screen to give you the full screen to work with. When you are ready to move on, tap the sides of the screen and the toolbars will come right back.
Other Features
- Remembers your scroll position on every page, for every view
- Ability to download specific articles web or text views individually
- Downloads Offline content in the background so you can read in the meantime
- No limit on number of articles
- Save links to your list directly from the reader view
- PDF Support (Online only, Offline coming in next update along with .doc, .xls, and .ppt)
- Scroll to top of page by tapping the top of the status bar as in Mobile Safari
- Option to include offline data in iTunes backups
- Multiple font choices for text view
The company also recently released an API for developers to build Read It Later integration into their own apps. This means developers of RSS readers, or even news publishers could give readers who are also Read It Later users a way to save their content for later viewing.
There’s both a free and pro version. The pro version, which costs $2.99.
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