Going on a Mobile Safari - iPad Mini - page 96

The Reading List feature used to require an active Internet connection, which is why
we always admired Marco Arment's superb Instapaper app — and still do. It's just $4.99 in
the App Store.
In Settings you can choose to use your cellular network (if available) to save Reading List items
from iCloud so you can read them offline.
Finally, don't forget that you can share your Reading List (and Bookmarks) among your computers
and iOS devices with iCloud, as described in Chapter 3 .
Clipping a web page
You frequent lots of websites, but some way more than others. You're constantly online to consult
your daily train schedule, for example. In their infinite wisdom, the folks at Apple let you bestow
special privileges on frequently visited sites, not just by bookmarking pages but also by affording
them their unique Home screen icons. Apple used to call these Web Clips, and we still like the term.
Creating one is dead simple. Follow these steps:
1. Open the web page in question and tap the Action button.
2. Tap Add to Home Screen.
Apple creates an icon out of the area of the page that was displayed when you saved the clip,
unless the page has its own custom icon.
3. Type a new name for your Web Clip or leave the one that Apple suggests.
4. Tap Add.
The icon appears on your Home screen.
As with any icon, you can remove a Web Clip by pressing and holding its icon until it
starts to wiggle. Then tap the X in the corner of the icon and tap Delete. Of course, you can
also move the Web Clip to a more preferred location on one of your Home screens or on your
Dock.
Letting history repeat itself
Sometimes you want to revisit a site that you failed to bookmark, but you can't remember the darn
destination or what led you there in the first place. Good thing you can study the history books.