I've just picked Reader up in the last 30 days as I've become more
"mobile".
I find the stars quite handy, but for the purpose of flagging content
to deal with later. As the other posters noted, the user provides the
symbolism behind the "star" shape.
Rolling up sections of the left nav area is
Hi Julie... I like Dante's suggestion of using the auto-save concept
to solve the problem; will this approach fold into the rest of the
application well? In my experience, I've discovered that
"auto-save" works best when its used consistently throughout the
entire application rather than as an isol
