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Readability - A tool that will vastly improve your online experience

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by silverlasso, May 27, 2009.

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  1. silverlasso

    silverlasso Minister of Magic DLP Supporter

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    May 27, 2009 #1
    (I'm sorry if this has been posted about before; I searched and couldn't find anything.)

    The tool Readability by the folks at arc90.com is amazing enough that I had to recommend it to DLP. Basically, it's a bookmarklet that converts pages into the format of your preference; this is extremely useful for reading at length. I personally prefer Novel/Medium/Wide; the background is easy on the eyes, the text is of a comfortable size, and the wide margins prevent excessive horizontal eye movement.
     
  2. Grubdubdub

    Grubdubdub Supreme Mugwump

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    May 28, 2009 #2
    The only noticeable change was the background, but still it's nice and good for the eyes. Good link.
     
  3. Xiph0

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    May 28, 2009 #3
    Might be useful but I'm going to pass because of the font face.
     
  4. Grubdubdub

    Grubdubdub Supreme Mugwump

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    The e-Book font is exactly like the standard font in FFN, if I'm not mistaken. Then again, if you pick e-Book, you gain little. [unless your screen is more than 17-19 inch, I suppose.]
     
  5. The Fine Balance

    The Fine Balance Headmaster

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    May 28, 2009 #5
    Small, Novel, small margins. Looks pretty damn good. Use FFDownloader to aggregate chapters. Format with this and save. (FF's native template for an aggregated html page is sucky.)
     
  6. silverlasso

    silverlasso Minister of Magic DLP Supporter

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    May 31, 2009 #6
    I'm finding this to be working well for RageBuddha, as well. The default formatting on there for books is tiresome for long periods of reading.
     
  7. Antivash

    Antivash Until we meet again... DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    Jun 11, 2009 #7
    On a related not to this post and the topic in general...

    Tiny Read is a firefox extention that does precisely the same thing, in a different way. Ive not explored it completely, but I think you can set your font face, colors, yadda ...

    But it also has Smart-shits, and it can do it automatically. And automation, it also has an allow/deny ability. You can set it to ignore search pages, forums, yadda.

    Im finding it far more useful than Readability.
     
  8. Myduraz

    Myduraz Headmaster DLP Supporter

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    Jun 13, 2009 #8
    What really would be nice is if they'd add background color of choice. Reading on a black background with light blue text ftw. Or did I miss the function I crave?

    And yes, I do live in a dark cave.
     
  9. Antivash

    Antivash Until we meet again... DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    Tiny Read. Comes custom with a semi-DLP theme, and you can customize it yourself.
     
  10. silverlasso

    silverlasso Minister of Magic DLP Supporter

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    Jun 16, 2009 #10
    Wow. That looks pretty nifty, and way easier to use than Readability. Good find, Vash. *installs*
     
  11. jts360

    jts360 Second Year

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    Jun 23, 2009 #11
    No Squint is a Firefox Extension that I find useful for stuff like this.

    Extension Features

    * Override the default text-only and full-page (both text and images) zoom levels for all websites
    * Enforce your own foreground and background colors
    * Remember your zoom levels and color settings per site, automatically applying them when you return.
    * Automatically zoom standalone images to fit the window; click on it to toggle zoom-to-fit.
    * Disagree with what NoSquint calls a site? A powerful exceptions mechanism lets you split up or group together sites with URL patterns.