Original: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/132517/the_rise_and_fa...
Awesome tool!
[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ireader/ppelffpjgk...
Example use with a TechCrunch article: http://justread.mpgarate.com/read?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunc...
Also works well as a bookmarklet:
javascript:window.location.replace("http://justread.mpgarate.com/read?url=" + escape(document.URL))
:command! justread execute 'open justread.mpgarate.com/read?url=' + buffer.URLsee also readability.
but what I really want is a low bandwidth version of a webpage, to conserve my mobile data plan.
I'm dating myself, but when I first learned about HTML, the idea was that text would be organized so the browser could make it more readable for you, based on your needs. For instance, a deaf person could use a text-to-speech browser, and perhaps the heading tags would help them navigate the document.
Today's web page simply treat the screen as a graphical canvas.
In those old days, I also learned that having a crummy obsolete browser for my crummy obsolete computer actually sped up browsing because my browser was simply incapable of downloading the stuff that ate bandwidth.
How come I never stumbled upon this!?
Thank you very much.
I ditched it at the time, but I may try to start using it again if I can get it work with ebooks.
I created this as a more simple interface than Readability offers, primarily for my own personal use as a bookmarklet.
You can then easily adapt it for your requirements.
Apologies for blowing my own horn but I've had some luck filtering HN and reddit with this project I built (I used to have an example in progress online but i've taken it down): https://github.com/kennethrapp/embedbug
Knowing my luck I'd get used to reading with this, then you'd disappear off the internet forever. It'd be nice to be able to self-host.
justread is written with golang!
Other than that- looks good.
Is noted in the footer.