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Okay, so I started reading this and got excited to see what this was all about. I've been wanting a web browser that can turn the "regular web" (as much as possible) into something more like an e-book that happens to have hyperlinks. Essentially, imagine Reader Mode, but all the time. But this is... something else? I tried scrolling to the bottom and as soon as I click on the scroll bar, I get a pop-up showing a bunc…
It's taking some of the addictiveness out of my screen viewing.
Okay, so I started reading this and got excited to see what this was all about. I've been wanting a web browser that can turn the "regular web" (as much as possible) into something more like an e-book that happens to have hyperlinks. Essentially, imagine Reader Mode, but all the time. But this is... something else? I tried scrolling to the bottom and as soon as I click on the scroll bar, I get a pop-up showing a bunc…
Honestly now I want "paged mode" as an option in my browsers next to "reader mode". Or a thing I can choose for reader mode to involve. Flipping pages on my desktop with l/r arrow keys (which is what this 'eink mode' does if you invoke it on a desktop) instead of endlessly scrolling is pretty nice .
Okay, so I started reading this and got excited to see what this was all about. I've been wanting a web browser that can turn the "regular web" (as much as possible) into something more like an e-book that happens to have hyperlinks. Essentially, imagine Reader Mode, but all the time. But this is... something else? I tried scrolling to the bottom and as soon as I click on the scroll bar, I get a pop-up showing a bunc…
This is something I've been wanting for a while. You could probably build an extension to accomplish that. One hard challenge would be extracting content and then displaying it in a way that retains its semantics across the web, including navigation, sidebars, etc. Another would be form handling.
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You can -almost- do this on most browsers by pressing space bar to scroll down and shift+space bar to scroll up. But on phones there is no remedy yet. For e-ink the problem with space bar scrolling is that it has an animation which messes up the display. Historically we went from scrolls to pages when the printing press was developed. Digital reading needs to go through the same evolution, it seems.
"Almost" is doing a lot of work in this sentence. Lines of text end up halfway off the screen. Sticky headers obscure text and you have to scroll backwards. It's just a messy experience.
Bonus: J/K keys will scroll to next paragraph or HTML element.
Okay, so I started reading this and got excited to see what this was all about. I've been wanting a web browser that can turn the "regular web" (as much as possible) into something more like an e-book that happens to have hyperlinks. Essentially, imagine Reader Mode, but all the time. But this is... something else? I tried scrolling to the bottom and as soon as I click on the scroll bar, I get a pop-up showing a bunc…
And I, too, fell into the eInk mode by clicking on the scrollbar. Very odd design decisions there.
I couldn't figure out how to go "up" in pages. Pressing "Home" didn't do anything. So a lot of web browser / mouse / keyboard functionality is thrown out in that mode, which shouldn't be necessary to still be a good e-reader mode.
Okay, so I started reading this and got excited to see what this was all about. I've been wanting a web browser that can turn the "regular web" (as much as possible) into something more like an e-book that happens to have hyperlinks. Essentially, imagine Reader Mode, but all the time. But this is... something else? I tried scrolling to the bottom and as soon as I click on the scroll bar, I get a pop-up showing a bunc…
These interruptions are especially annoying on e-ink.
Okay, so I started reading this and got excited to see what this was all about. I've been wanting a web browser that can turn the "regular web" (as much as possible) into something more like an e-book that happens to have hyperlinks. Essentially, imagine Reader Mode, but all the time. But this is... something else? I tried scrolling to the bottom and as soon as I click on the scroll bar, I get a pop-up showing a bunc…
> Eink mode is not a closed-file format reader but rather a form of responsive web design (RWD) integrated into the website itself.
suggests to me that it's a display mode you have to enable in the CSS design of the site, like "print" layout. I.e. this particular version is not software you can use on any site, it has to be baked into the site.