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Readability’s Future Functionality

Readability is a simple tool/service for internet readers that instantly removes clutter with the click of a bookmark(let) button — eliminating distractions and facilitating reading — as you (will) see below.

Before Readability

After Readability

Making Readability work is cake. After arriving on the Readability project page first select one of five presentation/font styles; then choose one of the five font sizes; finally, set your margin spacing — also from five choices.  Step two: drag the Readability badge/button to your browser’s bookmark toolbar. Now you’re set.

When visiting a webpage worth reading, click what you’ve just added to your bookmark bar and you are now reading better.

Readability Bookmarklet Button

. . . “Wait! I want the regular, ‘real’ webpage back!”  Alright, done. Click the gray refresh/return button in the upper left.

Readability's Refresh/Return Button

Make the jump to learn some potentially exclusive news about the future of Readability.

Oh, and if you want the MC Frontalot track mentioned above, it’s at SPIN.

So the news is that the Readability developers are supposedly working on a way for users to queue up, then read, several articles at time.  This means a new system that doesn’t require pressing the “Readability Button” for each individual webpage you come across thus providing the ability to cleanly read stuff from all over the interwebs in one place.  Or some similar thing.

There’s seemingly nothing yet mentioned about this planned functionality on Arc90’s blog.

News drops after writing Arc90 — creators of Readability.  Their response:

Josh:

Great minds think alike. We’ve been thinking the same thing. Keep your eyes peeled - lab.arc90.com. ;)

Thanks for writing.

Chris

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Chris LoSacco
Partner, Arc90

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On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:30 AM, josh wrote:

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They write:
Love Readability and use it daily. Would love to see another bookmarklet — or similar system — allowing queueing of articles for reading later, all in one place, when time allows.

Arc90 Email about a Future Readability Function