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mfringel on Aug 10, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader is live

Web apps sacrifice offline operation. I can't say I'd be totally sanguine about that, specifically with content providers.

Derbasti on Aug 10, 2011 | [–]

This one doesn't. It works just fine offline.

anigbrowl on Aug 10, 2011 | [–]

You can cache stuff offline with HTML 5. My tablet is wifi-only (didn't want to spend 100$ on an overpriced data plan) and this works fine with it.

Google Books also has an 'available offline' option, BTW. I can't quite decide which I prefer.

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