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I put this together really quickly to keep up to date on the Japan earthquake situation from my Japanese friends. They post in Japanese which I can't understand, so by adding the hashtag #en the translator will automatically translate and repost the translated tweet to their stream. Hopefully this will help others out as well.

Instapaper does not provide offline functionality except through their iphone app.

ReadMeLater allows any device with a browser that supports HTML5 to provide offline functionality.

All the html, images, css, and js files are saved locally using HTML5's cache.manifest so everything should load while offline. It is for me at least. What browser version are you using?

Yes, making it pretty is on the todo list.

Thanks for the feedback.

At the moment I wanted to keep it screen friendly for all devices and a left/right frame probably won't fit/look so great on an iphone for example. Maybe I can add some custom view options depending on the device you're using.

Thanks for the suggestion and comments!

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