Readability - Uncluter what you're reading
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Readability - Uncluter what you're reading
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Re: Readability - Uncluter what you're reading
#2I absolutely love reability. Not only does it remove distracting ads and styling but it allows me to decrease the number of words per line which is great for improving my speed reading.
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#3I absolutely love reability. Not only does it remove distracting ads and styling but it allows me to decrease the number of words per line which is great for improving my speed reading.
I totally agree. I love the beauty of your blog, folks, but when I actually want to read your blog, I use readability.
I wish there was a way to track the use of readability on a site actually. Would be good feedback for web designers.
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#4I wonder if you can add a "Readability Button" (instead of Print button) to your site, so that if people wants a nicely formatted version to read they can just click a button.
Should be easy? I have to look in to it.
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#5I wonder if you can add a "Readability Button" (instead of Print button) to your site, so that if people wants a nicely formatted version to read they can just click a button. Should be easy? I have to look in to it.
Overall, I think it's a good idea, but presents a bit of a paradox. If you're someone who cares about the readability of your site, you'd probably already have a pretty easily read site/font/layout.
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#6I wonder if you can add a "Readability Button" (instead of Print button) to your site, so that if people wants a nicely formatted version to read they can just click a button. Should be easy? I have to look in to it.
Should be easy?
A bookmarklet is just a JavaScript link that you bookmark instead of click. You could copy and paste the bookmarklet's contents into a regular A tag on a Web page and it should work fine.
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#7Can pg or someone put a link to this in the header? It seems to be reposted every two weeks or so.
(It is awesome, though)
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#8I wonder if you can add a "Readability Button" (instead of Print button) to your site, so that if people wants a nicely formatted version to read they can just click a button. Should be easy? I have to look in to it.
Should be easy? A bookmarklet is just a JavaScript link that you bookmark instead of click. You could copy and paste the bookmarklet's contents into a regular A tag on a Web page and it should work fine.
Thanks just did it. Very simple. Also will be hosting the JavaScript locally, editing the twitter account to link my twitter account instead of Arc90, but will keep the logo and link back to Arc90.
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#9I wonder if you can add a "Readability Button" (instead of Print button) to your site, so that if people wants a nicely formatted version to read they can just click a button. Should be easy? I have to look in to it.
Overall, I think it's a good idea, but presents a bit of a paradox. If you're someone who cares about the readability of your site, you'd probably already have a pretty easily read site/font/layout.
Good point.
At one hand I would like to keep ads on my site to help me run my blog and i want to keep the current formatting of the blog, which though not very cluttered but can be distracting (as a voracious online reader I can empathize with other readers.)
On the other hand I want to give the readers the option to choose a simple view while reading. Print View is ok but it doesn't do a nice formatting (unless you customize it).
Since my ads are CPM based, it doesn't matter to me whether the reader reads them with readability or not, as long as the page is loaded once. I want to give them the option of having a simple, less painful to eyes, view.
If the reader is already a readability user, they would still be one click away from having a better view.
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#10There's a Firefox addon, too:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/46442
Just like the bookmarklet, but easier to customize - and doesn't involve sending the URL of every page you Readablize to a third-party website.