Google Reader Now Has Offline Capability

Tonight is a night for trying out new software and services it seems. Just read on Scoble's blog that Google Reader now has offline capability. To use it you need to download the new Google Gears (Beta of course) plug in. Google Gears is an open source method that provides offline capabilities to Web apps.

After trying out the offline feature (that icon could be a little less subtle by the way) I like it a lot. Reminds me of using Onfolio, which has never been the same since being subsumed as a Windows Live Service. As a matter of fact I don't know if it even exists anymore. No matter. Google Reader seems to fill both the online reading and offline reading chores now.