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This is actually included in the in-app web browser in my Hacker News iPhone app. It's especially useful on a small screen where every pixel counts. The app: http://michaelgrinich.com/hackernews/
I 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.
Agreed re: words per line, but removing ads is wrong. If you don't like ads (excluding offensive or animated ones), don't visit sites that make their money from them.
Since when did any content creators, HN included, support stripping non-offensive ads from ad-supported content?
I built a little hobby poetry editor on Heroku in my spare time and I was really concerned that, although I have no ads or anything, the poems were hard to focus on with everything going on around them. So, I made a little button called "Reading Mode" that hides every element on the page except the poem text and a button to return to full mode. I think it definitely improves things--at least for the types of people w…
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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.
If you embed a readability button you could adjust it to capture those metrics for you.