Online reading is not the same as reading a newspaper, book or magazine. The main reason why it is not the same are the many options that webmasters have of displaying text on their websites. They can select different fonts, font sizes, font weight, colors and many more aspects. Newspaper and books on the other hand use more or less the same kind of fonts, text sizes and margins.
Readability is a bookmarklet that aids the Internet user in improving the online reading experience. We have discussed other options before like the Tidyread add-on for the Firefox web browser or Washer which turns colors into grayscale for better readability.
Readability is a little bit different as it offers some choices during the creation of the bookmarklet. The reader can select an individual style (newspaper, ebook, novel and terminal), size (small, medium, large and extra-large) and margin (narrow, medium, wide and extra-wide) to improve online reading. The bookmarklet will use the parameters that the user selects during configuration.
But Readability will not only change the text that is displayed on the website; It will also remove all the clutter – and by all we mean everything from advertisement, sidebars and comments – from the page so that only the title, images and text remains. Below is a screenshot of the original article HP Photosmart Premium All in one of Otakugadgets.com and the same article after having used the Readability bookmarklet with the ebook, medium, medium settings.
You can configure and bookmark the Readability bookmarklet (via Shellcity) to improve online reading at the developer’s website.
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Nice one. I did large post on bookmarklets for better reading (can’t-believe-you-missed-that ;) and this one I deemed best for desktop use.
Only downside it sometimes loses part or all of images in post when reformating.
Opera users have a similar feature built-in called “User Mode”. It’s in the View menu IIRC, and can be a button on the toolbar.
This could complement it nicely by allowing you to have multiple modes, just create a bookmarklet for each mode you want.