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> Tabs are really only supposed to be used for things you're actually looking at simultaneously; any time you're just middle-clicking everything on a page (e.g. the HN frontpage), in order to queue those pages up for reading after you close the index page, you should be putting them in the reading list instead. It's kind of sad that Apple hasn't made a larger push to get people to notice it; it's a much better solution for the bottom-80% of what people use tabs for today.

I appreciate the time you spent putting together a long response and a good explanation of the reading list, but honestly this seems like broken UX. Tabs and the reading list have a massive amount of overlap conceptually. The only true distinguishing feature seems to be that the reading list syncs. Other than that, it seems like the user is being asked to take on extra cognitive load to decide whether to open a link in a tab or the reading list. There are times when I know I would like to read something later or on my tablet, and that's the use-case for the reading list. Most of the time I just want to open a link now, and that's what tabs are for. If a vertical tab design is better, then tabs need to go vertical. I shouldn't be forced to open everything in the reading list to work around a UI deficiency.