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Here's one way that I read web content on my tablet, mostly news and blog posts these days. At the beginning of each day, I look through the daily papers on my laptop for articles I want to read. I open each article in a new firefox tab. Once I have all the articles lined up in tabs, I quickly go through them (using ctrl+tab) and click on the "Print" url. Then I go through them again, this time (1) hitting ctrl+A to select all, and (2) clicking the "clip" star in the Google Notebook Extension.


Once you've clipped each article individually--this gets quick after a couple of days' practice--you can go to the respective notebook at google.com/notebook. At the bottom of the page, you'll see a link to "export to HTML." Copy that link and put it in your tablet's bookmarks. Once you're signed in to your google account on your tablet, you'll be able to use that same bookmark to access whatever you go on to clip into that particular notebook using the Google Extension. If you're going to go offline, you can either leave that page open when you disconnect, or else save it to memory, to be opened later.

I know, sounds complicated. But once you get use to doing this, things are quick. I go through the NYT, WaPo, LAT, and WSJ in about five minutes opening articles I might want to read in tabs. Then clicking "Print" in each article and clipping each of them takes another five, I'd say. After that, I can open that bookmark anywhere and have my own custom newspaper with me to read.