I’ve been using the free Read It Later add-on (RIL from here on) for Firefox for quite a while now. It’s really great for marking pages that I want to read, but don’t want to take time out from whatever I’m doing when I find them. It’s also very nice because I often have my laptop computer with me, but in a place that doesn’t have an Internet connection — RIL’s off-line caching system lets me catch up on my reading despite that. I generally have between fifty and two hundred pages stored for later reading (120 right now).

The Idea Shower, creators of Read It Later, recently came out with an iPhone version of it. I discovered it a couple days ago, and immediately picked up the free version to try it. After a bit of settings confusion (which resulted in about twenty pages that I read and marked off more than a year ago showing up in my Read It Later queue again), the iPhone app synchronized with my Firefox list. I tested it out while I was waiting for my car at the garage, and it works beautifully!

I almost always have my iPod Touch with me, so now I can catch up on my reading even when I don’t have the laptop, or when it’s inconvenient to turn it on (like when I’m in line at the bank). 🙂

I’m planning to buy the Read It Later Pro version, probably later today. I don’t really need any of its added features, but it’s an easy way to support the developers — and at $2.99, an inexpensive one too. 🙂