This is my most loved feature of Safari missing from Chrome by default. Edge has added it recently.
The most underused browser feature: reader mode
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Re: The most underused browser feature: reader mode
#282I love reader mode but I don’t use it when reading technical content because it lacks syntax highlighting. I’ve also often encountered bugs where certain graphics that are core the the article won’t be shown and I will be confused until I turn off reader mode and see what I was missing. But for non-technical articles, it usually works fine.
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I doubt he will print as much, so your e-reader will have less environmental impact. All that plastic and components are certainly the equivalent of several, if not hundreds of reams of paper.
Cost is a very rough indicator of footprint. A modest e-book reader runs about $200. That's the cost of about 3 cases of 20# letter-sized paper (10 reams/case), or 15,000 sheets of paper. At ~300 pages/book, that's about 50 books cost equivalent. Note that printing output tends to run higher, at $0.01 -- $0.25 per page (higher for colour inkjet and laserjet). Depending on ones reading patterns, the cost (and environm…
And the marginal cost of adding articles to a device if you are already using it to read books is very low.
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#285Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cost is a very rough indicator of footprint. A modest e-book reader runs about $200. That's the cost of about 3 cases of 20# letter-sized paper (10 reams/case), or 15,000 sheets of paper. At ~300 pages/book, that's about 50 books cost equivalent. Note that printing output tends to run higher, at $0.01 -- $0.25 per page (higher for colour inkjet and laserjet). Depending on ones reading patterns, the cost (and environm…
And the marginal cost of adding articles to a device if you are already using it to read books is very low.
Correct, up to storage limits.
That's not a minor consideration from me as I can easily fill 64--128 GB of total storage (about 30GB seem to be system + apps).
That's not all books --- I keep a fairly large number of podcast episodes downloaded. But at about 5 MB/book, even an apparently generous storage quickly shows limits.
I passed on the ReMarkable as its 16 GB storage (about 8GB available) only permits 1,600 books at 5 MB/book.
(And that's without podcasts or audio.)
The BOOX has a 64 GB onboard storage, maximum. I've got that near capacity in about 6 months, though a large share of that is podcasts. My preference would be 256 GB. Plus far better content-management capabilities on the device itself. I think I could live within that.
Retail cost is $20, falling by about half every 2 years. The minimising of eBook storage makes absolutely no economic sense.
Re: The most underused browser feature: reader mode
#286I'm a huge fan of Readability Mode and use it often. It's proof that Web design isn't the solution, Web design is the problem. For those who are using e-ink devices, or even just standard tablets, EInkBro is another immensely useful tool. Yes, it's a standalone browser, not a mode on Firefox, Safari, Vivalti, etc. https://github.com/plateaukao/browser (Available through Google Play, F-Droid and other sources. Android…
I wish somebody would create a DL/GAN/style-transfer tool to automatically change the style of any website into https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
(regardless of how the website is structured, so deleting the CSS doesn't count)
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For anyone interested, my hacker news app HACK does both reader node as well as read text to speech. It's brand new so any feedback is welcome: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pranapps.h... It's available on iOS too which uses the built in reader mode of safari.
Just tried it out. I usually use Harmonic, and in general I much prefer the UI - it's more minimalistic, lower contrast, and I prefer the font (Product Sans). It also has a built in ad blocker. However, I appreciate the various filtering options / different feeds and the archive access seems like a really useful feature. On the whole I think I'll stick with Harmonic, but it looks like it has some potential.
The settings in my app can be customized to make it as minimalist as needed (like hide favicons, hide the metadata, only show titles etc). There’s also settings for color choices and a setting to use lower contrast text. Font sizes and paragraph spacing can be changed to make it more compact. My app has a built in adblocker too for the built in browser.
My app has reply push notifications too which I don’t think any of the other HN apps have.
As for the font, Product Sans is not legally allowed to be used by third parties as far as I am aware:
https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/102262/can...
My app allows you to change fonts too and it supports Montserrat font which looks visually similar to Product Sans.
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#288Earlier quoted context omitted.
For anyone interested, my hacker news app HACK does both reader node as well as read text to speech. It's brand new so any feedback is welcome: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pranapps.h... It's available on iOS too which uses the built in reader mode of safari.
Please consider putting this on F-droid. Many people here don't use Google services and you're likely missing out on many downloads (including mine)
Thanks for the idea. I will research F droid and put it on there.
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#289I love reader mode in Firefox. It will also do text to speech for you. The voices seem to dependent on something built into the OS. They sound okay on windows and I haven't figured out how to get them to sound good on linux. On windows the voices sound good, but I Wish I could get it to go a little faster. The voices don't sound human so it takes some getting used to. On linux the voices just sound more harsh. To the…
Oh that must be new but it looks so useful. I had eye laser last year and looked a lot for exactly something like that for my 3-4 days of literally just laying down and not doing much, but couldn't find anything like this. My plan was to open the Gutenberg project HTML books (or plain text) and have the browser read them, but nothing satisfied me (specially since there was no "pause/scrub" in the ones I did find). Ended up listening to audiobooks in youtube and that was good enough.
Re: The most underused browser feature: reader mode
#290I'm a huge fan of Readability Mode and use it often. It's proof that Web design isn't the solution, Web design is the problem. For those who are using e-ink devices, or even just standard tablets, EInkBro is another immensely useful tool. Yes, it's a standalone browser, not a mode on Firefox, Safari, Vivalti, etc. https://github.com/plateaukao/browser (Available through Google Play, F-Droid and other sources. Android…
I'm guessing this won't work with Remarkable. Or what are some good e-ink devices for this I wonder?
Any Android-based device.
Potentially in future, Linux-based devices which can run Android apps.
I'm not a particular fan of Android. Its application ecosystem is a bonus though.
Again, this is installable through F-Droid.