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2009-11-10 , 15:35
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Check out this program/service. It takes the gunk out of what you are reading, such as a news story, and just gives you the story according to specifications you can set. It's not as flexible as Monkey Wrench or whatever, but it's a lot simpler.

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

I assumed it wouldn't work on a tablet, but it does, at least for some stories. The instructions say to grab the Readability logo and drop in on the bookmark bar, or something similar. That didn't work for me with the standard tablet browser, so I saved the link as a bookmark and it worked, by just clicking on the bookmark while reading a story, say on the New York Times. It is handy, though slow, and appears to just be javascript. Maybe someone would come up with a more optimized version for tablets?
 

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2009-11-11 , 22:07
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So Cool cant wait to try on N900
 
GeraldKo is offline GeraldKo
2009-11-12 , 04:11
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Awesome! This works in Bundyo's tear browser, and so far I've found that the JavaScript does its magic quite quickly.

You need to create a bookmark (use the tear bookmark manager; see the main tear thread) with the following in place of the URL:

javascript:(function(){readStyle='style-newspaper';readSize='size-large';readMargin='margin-wide';_readability_script=document.createElement(' SCRIPT');_readability_script.type='text/javascript';_readability_script.src='http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/js/readability.js?x='+(Math.random());document.getEle mentsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(_readability_script);_readability_css =document.createElement('LINK');_readability_css.r el='stylesheet';_readability_css.href='http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/css/readability.css';_readability_css.type='text/css';_readability_css.media='screen';document.getE lementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(_readability_css);_readability_print_ css=document.createElement('LINK');_readability_pr int_css.rel='stylesheet';_readability_print_css.hr ef='http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/css/readability-print.css';_readability_print_css.media='print';_r eadability_print_css.type='text/css';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(_readability_print_css);})();

To test Readability, just paste that into the address bar and click the green arrow when you have a news article showing in the browser window.


A few words to make this more readily found by search: skweezer TidyRead "fit width to view" fwtv
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2009-11-12 , 20:31
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Dunno why the page doesn't render as it should.
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2009-11-16 , 18:10
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Originally Posted by GeraldKo View Post
Awesome! This works in Bundyo's tear browser, and so far I've found that the JavaScript does its magic quite quickly.

You need to create a bookmark (use the tear bookmark manager; see the main tear thread) with the following in place of the URL:

javascriptfunction(){readStyle='style-newspaper';readSize='size-large';readMargin='margin-wide';_readability_script=document.createElement(' SCRIPT');_readability_script.type='text/javascript';_readability_script.src='http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/js/readability.js?x='+(Math.random());document.getEle mentsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(_readability_script);_readability_css =document.createElement('LINK');_readability_css.r el='stylesheet';_readability_css.href='http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/css/readability.css';_readability_css.type='text/css';_readability_css.media='screen';document.getE lementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(_readability_css);_readability_print_ css=document.createElement('LINK');_readability_pr int_css.rel='stylesheet';_readability_print_css.hr ef='http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/css/readability-print.css';_readability_print_css.media='print';_r eadability_print_css.type='text/css';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(_readability_print_css);})();

To test Readability, just paste that into the address bar and click the green arrow when you have a news article showing in the browser window.


A few words to make this more readily found by search: skweezer TidyRead "fit width to view" fwtv
Great find. FWIW, I added a tweak for portrait mode.

"Rotation Readability": margins modified for optimal ebook-style reading

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javascript:(function(){readStyle='style-ebook';readSize='size-large';readMargin='margin-narrow';_readability_script=document.createElement('SCRIPT');_readability_script.type='text/javascript';_readability_script.src='http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/js/readability.js?x='+(Math.random());document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(_readability_script);_readability_css=document.createElement('LINK');_readability_css.rel='stylesheet';_readability_css.href='http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/css/readability.css';_readability_css.type='text/css';_readability_css.media='screen';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(_readability_css);_readability_print_css=document.createElement('LINK');_readability_print_css.rel='stylesheet';_readability_print_css.href='http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/css/readability-print.css';_readability_print_css.media='print';_readability_print_css.type='text/css';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(_readability_print_css);})();
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Can't make it work on microB or Opera. Seemingly only for that new tear browser, eh?
 
Laughing Man is offline Laughing Man
2010-08-13 , 20:51
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Are you sure it doesn't work? I've found all the bookmarklets I have work for me (haven't tried readability though). But the way you get it, is by going to the website, creating your settings and then tap and hold on the bookmarklet and add it to your bookmarks.

And then to use it, you click on your bookmarks, click on the bookmarklet. I personally have a bunch of them saved into a bookmarklet folder.
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GeraldKo is offline GeraldKo
2010-08-13 , 23:20
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Can't make it work on microB or Opera. Seemingly only for that new tear browser, eh?
I use it in Opera and MicroB as well as Tear, on my N800. Look at my instructions above. You have to have the text of the bookmarklet just right; e.g., no space after the final semi-colon.

Judging from your Join date, you're probably an N900 user, and if so, I'd give Laughing Man's instructions another shot.

Good luck!
 

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2010-08-13 , 23:22
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I've found all the bookmarklets I have work for me ... I personally have a bunch of them saved into a bookmarklet folder.
Any interesting enough you'd like to share?
 
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2010-08-13 , 23:55
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OK, The readability bookmarklet worked finely on microB this time. It takes a little to reshape the text.

Originally Posted by GeraldKo View Post
Any interesting enough you'd like to share?
My favorite and only one bookmarklet before this one was Remember Password at https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/forms.html
Some networks block password remembering that one unlocks them all
 
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