Have you ever wanted to read a web page later? This tool allows you to save longer articles or web pages that you do not have time to read at the moment, to read later. Now, you may wonder--why not just save the links? Sometimes those links don't last so long. I recently gave a presentation and used a web page for one of my sources. A person who was in the session emailed me to find out where my graphic had come from, as she couldn't find it online in the source I listed. I was puzzled, and when I looked, I was also unable to find it. Sometimes things just don't stay online forever. That is reason number one to use this service. Reason number 2? You can send the pages to your kindle, i-phone, or i-pad. Cool, huh? Especially if sites like the New York Times are going to charge for article views after a certain number, you don't want to be wasting your 20 articles looking at the same one twice. Also, you won't need to print it out, and since you haven't saved it to a particular drive, you can access it from any internet connected computer--it's in the cloud. I wouldn't use this for everything, but I can see it being very useful for some things. I especially like that I can send it to my kindle. That will make my kindle even more useful.
Try it out, you may also like it!
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