Comments on: Wish I’d invented it

By: Logo Design

Logo Design — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:44:38 +0000

We have used Arc90 Lab’s Readability on many occasions. It’s quite comfortable to use. It’s main feature is that it wipes off the text it sees, drops off all the useless ads and pictures, formats everything in desired manner and produces the finished result. Cool !

By: Chris Coyier

Chris Coyier — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 04:09:21 +0000

In a similar vein, I made a bookmarklet for de-cruftifying pages for the purposes of print.

By: Theo

Theo — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:43:59 +0000

Nice tool, i was just wondering about the font-styles then i saw on the bottom right : Fonts by Typekit. Typekit is great.

Thank you for sharing Readability

By: David

David — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:44:41 +0000

Is it just me or is it ironic that we, myself included, rave above an app that makes a website look like a printed page, be it broadsheet or book yet the internet is rife with scorn for print media and how the internet has made them redundant.

Funny lot we are…

David

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:56:53 +0000

One of the better bits to come to the interweb in some time!

By: Brade

Brade — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:31:30 +0000

Thanks for sharing–this thing is good times!

By: Paolo

Paolo — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:16:28 +0000

Wow, truly invaluable. Now, if only average newspapers webdesigners could release a real readable story page…

By: Tantek

Tantek — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:11:41 +0000

What Readability style/size/margin settings do you use Jeffrey?

By: Chris Wigley

Chris Wigley — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:51:05 +0000

Ah, here's that bookmarklet for Readability + Evernote .

By: Chris Wigley

Chris Wigley — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:49:27 +0000

If you use Evernote, you can even dig up a bookmarklet script on the interweb that will take any web page, convert it with Readability, and post it to Evernote. I have the bookmarket, but can’t remember where I found it.

By: Richard Ziade

Richard Ziade — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:49:15 +0000

Thanks for the kind words Jeffrey. Much appreciated.

-Rich
Arc90

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:34:32 +0000

This is sweet. Thanks for pointing it out.

By: winston

winston — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:29:11 +0000

I find that if there is anything longer than a simple blog post, I will bookmark it with Instapaper and use either the iPhone app or the desktop browser page to read the article. It strips out all ads and formats it nicely, plus the iPhone app remembers where I was in the article last time I closed the app, meaning I never lose my place in anything I’m reading.

By: Jared Stein

Jared Stein — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:27:34 +0000

Yep! It’s an amazing piece of work that lets me read any web site on any monitor.

By: John Lascurettes

John Lascurettes — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:24:26 +0000

I've been using Readability and Readable both for some time, both on the desktop and on mobile browsers. Each has its strengths and weaknesses so I haven't found a preference for one over the other, just a preference for which one I'll use for which contexts.