14 DAY TRIAL // Tests carried out on the latest OS X Lion seed have revealed that Apple is adding new features to the Safari web browser to better accommodate those who wish to save content for offline reading and avoid fragmenting their web browsing sessions.
A service akin to Instapaper, the new Reading List in Safari (version 5.1 build 7534.31.2) saves articles for later reading.
“If you come across a webpage or link that you want to read later, Reading List gives you an easy way to save the link,” according to the Safari help menu in Lion.
To add a page to the Reading List, users must open the webpage they want to add, click the Reading List icon (represented by a pair of eyeglasses), located at the left side of the Bookmarks bar, and click Add Page in the Reading List sidebar.
The eyeglasses icon is not there yet, but Apple has enough time to throw it in until WWDC 2011 when Lion makes its public debut.
To quickly add a link to the Reading List, Apple has conveniently implemented a keyboard shortcut or hotkey.
“Shift-click a link on a webpage to add it to your Reading List. You can use this shortcut with the Reading List sidebar open or closed,” the documentation explains.
To display Reading List articles using Safari’s Reader feature, users must click the Reader button at the right end of the Safari address field.
The Reader button appears only when a webpage contains text-based articles.
Finally, to remove a page from the Reading List, users can simply hover with the mouse pointer over the article and, when the Remove button (x) appears, a click will send it away.
To remove all articles from the Reading List, users can click Clear in the Reading List sidebar.