Nokia-Microsoft partnership. Letter to Developers about Today’s News. How The iPad Time Shifts Online Reading. One of the reasons bookmarking apps like Read It Later and Instapaper are becoming so popular is because we are inundated with news and interesting links all day long, but have no time to read them.
But just as DVRs helps us shift our TV viewing to better fit our own schedules, these apps helps us time shift our online reading. And according to some data put out earlier this month by Read It Later, it looks like the iPad is becoming the time-shifting reading device of choice. Read It Later offers bookmarking apps for computers, mobile phones and iPads.