diff --git a/apple/OmnivoreKit/Sources/App/PDFSupport/PDFViewer.swift b/apple/OmnivoreKit/Sources/App/PDFSupport/PDFViewer.swift
index d6217081c..fa89eeb4e 100644
--- a/apple/OmnivoreKit/Sources/App/PDFSupport/PDFViewer.swift
+++ b/apple/OmnivoreKit/Sources/App/PDFSupport/PDFViewer.swift
@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ import Utils
             // NOTE: the issue here is the PDF is downloaded, but saved to a URL we don't know about
             // because it is changed.
             let pdfURL = await viewModel.downloadPDF(dataService: dataService)
+            print("PDF URL", pdfURL)
             if let pdfURL = pdfURL {
               let document = HighlightedDocument(url: pdfURL, viewModel: viewModel)
               pdfStateObject.document = document
diff --git a/apple/OmnivoreKit/Sources/App/PDFSupport/PDFViewerViewModel.swift b/apple/OmnivoreKit/Sources/App/PDFSupport/PDFViewerViewModel.swift
index 5b25456cb..2f78cef45 100644
--- a/apple/OmnivoreKit/Sources/App/PDFSupport/PDFViewerViewModel.swift
+++ b/apple/OmnivoreKit/Sources/App/PDFSupport/PDFViewerViewModel.swift
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import CoreData
 import Foundation
 import Models
 import Services
+import Utils
 
 public final class PDFViewerViewModel: ObservableObject {
   @Published public var errorMessage: String?
@@ -93,6 +94,12 @@ public final class PDFViewerViewModel: ObservableObject {
       if itemDownloaded {
         return pdfItem.localPdfURL
       }
+      if let tempURL = pdfItem.tempPDFURL {
+        if let localURL = try? PDFUtils.copyToLocal(url: tempURL) {
+          return tempURL
+          // return URL(string: localURL)
+        }
+      }
       if let localURL = try await dataService.fetchPDFData(slug: pdfItem.slug, pageURLString: pdfItem.originalArticleURL) {
         return localURL
       }
diff --git a/apple/OmnivoreKit/Sources/Models/CoreData/CoreDataModel.xcdatamodeld/CoreDataModel.xcdatamodel/contents b/apple/OmnivoreKit/Sources/Models/CoreData/CoreDataModel.xcdatamodeld/CoreDataModel.xcdatamodel/contents
index fec76121b..9c4257c46 100644
--- a/apple/OmnivoreKit/Sources/Models/CoreData/CoreDataModel.xcdatamodeld/CoreDataModel.xcdatamodel/contents
+++ b/apple/OmnivoreKit/Sources/Models/CoreData/CoreDataModel.xcdatamodeld/CoreDataModel.xcdatamodel/contents
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
         <attribute name="siteName" optional="YES" attributeType="String"/>
         <attribute name="slug" attributeType="String"/>
         <attribute name="state" optional="YES" attributeType="String"/>
+        <attribute name="tempPDFURL" optional="YES" attributeType="URI"/>
         <attribute name="title" attributeType="String"/>
         <attribute name="updatedAt" optional="YES" attributeType="Date" usesScalarValueType="NO"/>
         <relationship name="highlights" toMany="YES" deletionRule="Cascade" destinationEntity="Highlight" inverseName="linkedItem" inverseEntity="Highlight"/>
@@ -91,7 +92,7 @@
     </entity>
     <elements>
         <element name="Highlight" positionX="27" positionY="225" width="128" height="224"/>
-        <element name="LinkedItem" positionX="-18" positionY="63" width="128" height="434"/>
+        <element name="LinkedItem" positionX="-18" positionY="63" width="128" height="449"/>
         <element name="LinkedItemLabel" positionX="-36" positionY="18" width="128" height="134"/>
         <element name="NewsletterEmail" positionX="0" positionY="180" width="128" height="74"/>
         <element name="Viewer" positionX="45" positionY="234" width="128" height="89"/>
diff --git a/apple/OmnivoreKit/Sources/Models/DataModels/FeedItem.swift b/apple/OmnivoreKit/Sources/Models/DataModels/FeedItem.swift
index 4147401d9..d74f21aeb 100644
--- a/apple/OmnivoreKit/Sources/Models/DataModels/FeedItem.swift
+++ b/apple/OmnivoreKit/Sources/Models/DataModels/FeedItem.swift
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ public extension LinkedItem {
   var isReadyToRead: Bool {
     if isPDF {
       // If its a PDF we verify the local file is available
-      return PDFUtils.exists(filename: localPDF)
+      return PDFUtils.exists(filename: localPDF) || PDFUtils.tempExists(tempPDFURL: tempPDFURL)
     }
     // Check the state and whether we have HTML
     return state == "SUCCEEDED"
diff --git a/apple/OmnivoreKit/Sources/Models/DataModels/PDFItem.swift b/apple/OmnivoreKit/Sources/Models/DataModels/PDFItem.swift
index 475f8dfb9..43c2eb672 100644
--- a/apple/OmnivoreKit/Sources/Models/DataModels/PDFItem.swift
+++ b/apple/OmnivoreKit/Sources/Models/DataModels/PDFItem.swift
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ public struct PDFItem {
   public let itemID: String
   public let pdfURL: URL?
   public let localPDF: String?
+  public let tempPDFURL: URL?
   public let title: String
   public let slug: String
   public let readingProgress: Double
@@ -24,6 +25,7 @@ public struct PDFItem {
       itemID: item.unwrappedID,
       pdfURL: URL(string: item.unwrappedPageURLString),
       localPDF: item.localPDF,
+      tempPDFURL: item.tempPDFURL,
       title: item.unwrappedID,
       slug: item.unwrappedSlug,
       readingProgress: item.readingProgress,
diff --git a/apple/OmnivoreKit/Sources/Services/DataService/DataService.swift b/apple/OmnivoreKit/Sources/Services/DataService/DataService.swift
index eb464759c..f14ac5b6a 100644
--- a/apple/OmnivoreKit/Sources/Services/DataService/DataService.swift
+++ b/apple/OmnivoreKit/Sources/Services/DataService/DataService.swift
@@ -148,9 +148,8 @@ public final class DataService: ObservableObject {
       switch pageScrape.contentType {
       case let .pdf(localUrl):
         linkedItem.contentReader = "PDF"
+        linkedItem.tempPDFURL = localUrl
         linkedItem.title = PDFUtils.titleFromPdfFile(pageScrape.url)
-        print("PERSISTING PDF", localUrl)
-        linkedItem.localPDF = try PDFUtils.copyToLocal(url: localUrl)
       case let .html(html: html, title: title, iconURL: iconURL):
         linkedItem.contentReader = "WEB"
         linkedItem.originalHtml = html
diff --git a/apple/OmnivoreKit/Sources/Utils/PDFUtils.swift b/apple/OmnivoreKit/Sources/Utils/PDFUtils.swift
index 0d4a4c19c..d7c89cd68 100644
--- a/apple/OmnivoreKit/Sources/Utils/PDFUtils.swift
+++ b/apple/OmnivoreKit/Sources/Utils/PDFUtils.swift
@@ -45,6 +45,13 @@ public enum PDFUtils {
     return false
   }
 
+  public static func tempExists(tempPDFURL: URL?) -> Bool {
+    if let tempPDFURL = tempPDFURL {
+      return FileManager.default.fileExists(atPath: tempPDFURL.path)
+    }
+    return false
+  }
+
   public static func titleFromPdfFile(_ urlStr: String) -> String {
     let url = URL(string: urlStr)
     if let url = url {