Access your Reading List

Open your Reading List from anywhere.

Tap the address bar or open a new tab to bring up your home screen. Swipe to the left on your home screen until you're on the Reading List panel.

Tap the article you want to read. Articles you've already read will be grayed out.

I suppose I should've said I'm on Windows 7. No swiping here, no touch screen. I can get into reader view just fine, but the "Add to Reading List" (+) and "Open Reading List" buttons on the left of the screen no longer do anything.

After a little more digging this appears to be related to the "Pocket" integration. I refreshed Firefox and the buttons on the left of the screen in reading view changed.

Before, the buttons were (top to bottom): Close Reader View Font Choices Add to Reading List (+ symbol in a circle) Open Reading List (three lines)

Now, the buttons are (top to bottom): Close Reader View Font Choices Pocket button (whatever that does)

I was using the old reading list, which apparently has gone away now. How do I get it back? I have no desire to sign up for yet another third party "cloud" service.

And any way, that's beside the point. Even if I can't have the old feature back, I need the information which was on the old reading list! How do I retrieve that?

Given the crickets in this thread I assume there is no solution to my issue. I found the reading list SQlite file in the firefox program folder and can open it with notepad, but extracting the links from it is a pretty brutal manual process.

Anybody got any idea how to get the links out of the old reading list in a less labor intensive way?

You can use the SQLite Manager extension in Firefox to inspect SQLite databases.

• https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/sqlite-manager/

You can execute an SQLite query to have a list of items that you need. I do not have a file to check it, but you can start with a query like this:

SELECT items.url
FROM items
ORDER BY url DESC

Thanks for that. I'll give it a try when I've got the chance.