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Reading List - Discussion
We wanted to thank everyone again for their feedback around Reading Lists. We have internally acknowledged that Reading List as a feature was not able to meet the needs of our users. While we do have some very passionate users of this feature, the truth is that it wasn’t used much in Legacy Edge. With these things in mind, we have decided to not implement this feature into chromium-based Edge.
For alternatives, we still believe that the ones mentioned in the original post are what will work best for users. Collections have had several new features implemented recently, and we encourage you to give them a try. If you’re curious as to where your Reading Lists went when you updated to new Edge, they should be located in your Favorites under the Other favorites folder listed as Reading List.
While we are not going to bring this feature to new Edge, we are always listening and making choices based on all your feedback. Please continue to send in the feedback about what you would love to see or what you think is missing!
Thanks,
The Microsoft Edge Team
Elliot Kirk While I added many items to my Reading List in Edge Legacy, I found that I rarely went back to review those and to actually use them. They became a form of storage. As such, I think the newer "Collections" fit that use better, especially since we can a collection to Excel, OneNote, or Word. Export to an HTML page might be a good addition.
Those can be stored locally (and offline as needed), so I would not need an ability for a Reading List to be stored offline. In addition, if Reading Lists were stored offline, people wanting to reduce local hard disk space might need a toggle to disable that.
One possible way to improve this (Reading List just becoming another place for storage) would be if the 2 newest and 2 oldest entries were to optionally appear on the ‘New Tab’ page (Safari on iOS does this by occasionally offering URL bar suggestions from the user’s reading list).
With the demise of ‘Set-Aside Tabs’, there isn’t a last-in, first-out (LIFO, or stack) place to bookmark individual pages. I (and I imagine many others) end up just spawning links in countless tabs for later reading.
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Perhaps someday, a browser will allow one to right-click on a link and select “To review” (and/or other more arbitrary tags); before closing the browser (and/or on ‘New Tab’ pages) the user would then be presented with a message “Madam, you expressed interest in reviewing the following links:”, perhaps with each link even showing a tooltip showing from whence it came, and an option to save the links as a folder of favorites or to keep them on the list for future sessions.
Perhaps also someday, favorites / bookmarks (and their associated metadata; e.g. where from, date bookmarked, etc.) will be stored in a database so the browser user could search parametrically. For example, one could quickly filter favorites/bookmarks to show:
- only those I added in the last half of May
- only those links I bookmarked from pages on Wikipedia
- all favorites that point to *.microsoft.com/*.
- all favorites that _do not_ point to a particular site / domain / TLD
- all favorites added more than 2 years ago
- favorites I’ve never clicked on
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