Show HN: Ditch Black Text to Read Faster, Easier
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Show HN: Ditch Black Text to Read Faster, Easier
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Re: Show HN: Ditch Black Text to Read Faster, Easier
#2Any plans to make this available as a plugin for ebook readers?
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#3I was ready to call B.S. on this but after actually seeing it in action, it seems very reasonable. I wonder why this hasn't been done before. I happen to skip lines very often, I'll definitely try this out.
EDIT: Some feedback after reading a Cracked article with it.
First of all, since the inception of the Readability bookmarklet I've always read online articles with some kind of tool (I started with Readability, then passed to the Safari version and now I've been using Clearly for quite some time and I'm pretty happy about it) and now I'm so used to it that if a particular article doesn't render properly, I just straight out don't read it. The first thing I noticed is that the coloration is applied even to single-line titles, I would do away with it and (maybe) apply it only on multi-line paragraphs' titles. The other thing that irked me is that small images are put on the left side instead of being centered, even worse is the fact that text appears on the right side of the images; I would follow Clearly steps in this regard and always put the text under the centered images. Lastly, I would reduce the text area to 600px of width or better yet, dynamically size it so as to accommodate around 60 characters. As far as I can tell, you totally nailed the font size.
Re: Show HN: Ditch Black Text to Read Faster, Easier
#4Any plans to make this available as a plugin for ebook readers?
We're in early-stage talks with some companies in the ebook space—DRM obviously forces us to deal with the owners of various walled gardens. We'd love to find a popular, DRM-free, ebook platform. Suggestions welcome!
Re: Show HN: Ditch Black Text to Read Faster, Easier
#5I... I wasn't aware this was a problem.
Huh.
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#6I... I wasn't aware this was a problem. Huh.
It is a problem, especially for beginning readers who struggle to comprehend as they're reading and don't have the 'bandwidth' to parse the incorrect sentence and find their place in the text on the fly. Stressful situations (tests, public reading in front of the class, etc) likely make this worse.
Re: Show HN: Ditch Black Text to Read Faster, Easier
#7I was ready to call B.S. on this but after actually seeing it in action, it seems very reasonable. I wonder why this hasn't been done before. I happen to skip lines very often, I'll definitely try this out. EDIT: Some feedback after reading a Cracked article with it. First of all, since the inception of the Readability bookmarklet I've always read online articles with some kind of tool (I started with Readability, th…
I tend to skip lines or re-read lines when reading, and I was surprised at how applying this gradient helped me continuously read their homepage. Definitely going to see how I can use this to improve my reading comprehension!
Re: Show HN: Ditch Black Text to Read Faster, Easier
#8Any plans to make this available as a plugin for ebook readers?
We're in early-stage talks with some companies in the ebook space—DRM obviously forces us to deal with the owners of various walled gardens. We'd love to find a popular, DRM-free, ebook platform. Suggestions welcome!
I don't know if he's around here, but you should get in touch with Patrick Thompson at Inkstone Mobile (http://www.inkstonemobile.com/). He has been working in this space for some years and did a wonderful presentation at MicroConf 2013 (http://mobileportland.com/events/adventures-app-marketing).
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#9Very interesting. Gave it a bit of a test run and it felt good. I'm definitely going to try it out.
Re: Show HN: Ditch Black Text to Read Faster, Easier
#10Any plans to make this available as a plugin for ebook readers?
We're in early-stage talks with some companies in the ebook space—DRM obviously forces us to deal with the owners of various walled gardens. We'd love to find a popular, DRM-free, ebook platform. Suggestions welcome!
The main one is Gutenberg, but Beeline users can just install it and make it work on the gutenberg site. You could still contact them to get them to add it as a feature.