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Ari Suominen
Brass Contributor
Apr 09, 2019

Reading list

From the old Edge I´m missing most is the Reading list function. I have used that from the beginning and it has been a lifesaver in my work. Please add it to this new Edge as well
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wigster
Iron Contributor
Sep 25, 2019
One of the things I was using the Reading List for was to triage articles on my phone’s Edge browser to be read later on my desktop. Collections are to complicated a feature to be put on the mobile browser probably, but a mobile reading list could appear as a particular collection on the Desktop.
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HotCakeX
MVP
Sep 25, 2019
Yes. collections are different than reading list in a way that collections only save a link to a content on the web whereas reading list saves the actual content locally for off line reading later, even without internet connection, and it also syncs it between all of your devices.

Reading list is a must have! collections have different use cases.
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    Phillip Frabott
    Brass Contributor
    Sep 25, 2019
    Yeah that's my only grip with collections is that it does not work offline. This makes it unfeasible as a reading list replacement. Now, if they can make collections work in offline mode then we might have a contender for a reading list replacement but since collections is not exactly designed for that, I think having all your collections offline will not work very well.
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      Drew1903
      Silver Contributor
      Sep 27, 2019

      Phillip Frabott 

      Phillip,

      Having read the exchanges here about Reading List... I must say you are spot-on in regard to the Off-line part.  When Reading List came to Edge, one of the very "big deal" aspects of it that excited people was the fact that its items could, still, be accessed/read whilst Off-line.  Absolutely, you're dead right.

      And thus another reason Reading List & Collections do not/can not equate. 2 different things, different functionality and reasons to exist.  As previously stated, they don't belong in the same conversation, BUT, Reading List DOES belong in Edge C!

      Cheers,
      Drew

    • HotCakeX's avatar
      HotCakeX
      MVP
      Sep 25, 2019
      Yes true. though you can export your collections to word or excel and keep them offline, but you know, it's just extra work, reading list would take care of this automatically.
      • Phillip Frabott's avatar
        Phillip Frabott
        Brass Contributor
        Sep 26, 2019

        HotCakeX 

         

        Except not everyone has Word and Excel on all their devices. I'd have to test out if it actually downloads the entire web site (even when just a link is provided) when exporting. Something tells me it doesn't.

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      Drew1903
      Silver Contributor
      Sep 25, 2019

      Phillip Frabott 

      Phillip, that was my point.  If the Team thinks or wants us to think Collections replaces Reading List, it, really, doesn't/can't.  Ergo, it's fine to have added Collections... but, it doesn't really belong discussed together with Reading List AND goes back to the fact that, thus far, Edge C has given an incomplete  or another example of messing with or omitting things in Edge that should be left the way they are!

      The remark grew out of someone suggesting Collections to be an improved 'reading list'.  Collections may be great, but, Reading List is missing & that's unacceptable..

      Cheers,
      Drew


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