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The quickest/easiest way is to subscribe: http://arstechnica.com/subscriptions/ You can pay $5 for a month and then cancel it. For the amount of work Siracusa puts into this thing, it's worth it.
Apparently decades on the internet have made me immune to advertising, even for things I want. :)
Am I missing an obvious single page link, or do they really want you to pay not to have to click through 25 pages?
http://www.readability.com/articles/6ynwkoyx
Pictures seem to be stripped out, though.
Am I missing an obvious single page link, or do they really want you to pay not to have to click through 25 pages?
Am I missing an obvious single page link, or do they really want you to pay not to have to click through 25 pages?
Am I missing an obvious single page link, or do they really want you to pay not to have to click through 25 pages?
Jesus. I dont know how many words are in the OP but I'm sure it's an astonishing number. And all made available for free. Are you really zipping through the piece that fast that a five second intermission is too much to tolerate for a free massive article?
About 25000
edit: more precisely, from Siracusa's blog: 25935 words, 167 images, 206 external links
And there goes my spare time... Every OS X release I'm more eager for Siracusa's review than the actual disk (or now download) itself :-)
Am I missing an obvious single page link, or do they really want you to pay not to have to click through 25 pages?
You can get Ars Premier, buy the ebook or use some sort of stitching reader.
Not that I have a problem clicking through 25 pages when each page holds 1000 words and is a self-contained section or a pair of sections. Siracusa pays close attention to pagination in order to pace the article, in my experience of his reviews the page breaks are actually welcome as they give natural "yield" points for doing something else before coming back
edit: in fact, Siracusa notes (on his blog):
> I actually like [pagination] for very long articles because it helps me keep my place across multiple reading sessions. I can remember I was on page 8 instead of remembering my exact position in a very long scrolling web page.
> [...]
> Some people think Ars Technica forces me to break my article up into many tiny pages. That’s not the case. I choose how to paginate the article. I like to break it up by topic, if possible, which means that the “pages” vary widely in length. This year, Ars Technica actually asked me to merge several pages together to reduce the total number of pages (and I did).
So not only did he decide the pagination based on his desires regardless of advertisement money, ars actually asked him to paginate less.
Am I missing an obvious single page link, or do they really want you to pay not to have to click through 25 pages?
Sounds like if you buy the Kindle version when it comes out ($5), he'll get a direct cut, which is nice.