Where’s that damn stapler?
Today, we’re updating our Readability bookmarklet with one of the most requested features since its release. Now, when you click on Readability while viewing an article that spans multiple pages, it will show a readable view of the entire article. We’ve found this update to work effectively on nearly all popular sites.
We’ve also included some minor fixes and enhancements in this release, including a subtle user experience enhancement: paging through the text with the space bar now triggers a smoother (and slightly slower) scroll, making it a bit easier to keep track of your place in the article.
You do not need to reinstall the bookmarklet to take advantage of these new features. The update will propagate automatically. If you run into articles that Readability fails to parse properly or run into any other issues, be sure to let us know.
Jim Feeley said:
Fantastic!
VS said:
Wow, this would beat the multitude of page-stiching|autopager|pagezipper|repagination addons|scripts|extensions|bookmarklets hands down, pants down.
Some questions/observations:
1. As advertised, the old bookmarklet works on showing the full article from multi-page stories, like (http://nymag.com/health/features/46213/)
2. Some sites I couldn’t get the bookmarklet to work on:
http://www.cracked.com/article_18627_6-things-from-history-everyone-pictures-incorrectly.html
(possibly because there are only 2 pages)
http://www.thestreet.com/story/10822346/1/stock-market-story-july-30.html
3. The popular chrome (Readability Redux https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jggheggpdocamneaacmfoipeehedigia) and firefox addons (Readability 1.0 by Arc90, Baris Derin https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/46442/), which quite a few use for the convenience of keyboard shortcuts, haven’t been updated.
Are they maintained by arc90?
Cameron said:
Best feature ever. Even works on on a 21 page article like this http://technologizer.com/2010/08/01/the-great-operating-system-games/
Great work!!!
Greg Black said:
Awesome! Love Readability more every day.
Per said:
Wow, you guys just rock. Readability is probably the must useful “tool” in my day-to-day browsing experience, and it just got better. I recommend it to just about everyone i know.
Keep up the excellent work!
mike said:
a good list to try it out on :)
mike said:
oops, here is the link
The Best Magazine Articles Ever
http://www.kk.org/cooltools/the-best-magazi.php
xavier said:
Was a nice suprise while reading http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/is-the-internet-making-us-stupid–673843that I had already read page 2… However, the second page appears three times!
Michel S. said:
Wonderful development, though still a bit buggy: It works on NYT Magazine and The Atlantic, however, does not work on the website of Columbia Journalism Review, e.g. this article:
http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/washington_as_baghdad.php
Tilman said:
Hi, I really like Readability. Works great most of the time. Still sometimes Images (bars etc.) distract me on certain websites. A feature to hide images (not as a general setting, but for the current page) would be a nice to get around this.
Patrick said:
+1 to the Hide-Images feature request above… I like to use Readability to get rid of the noise before printing a web page – and often don’t want to waste ink on images.
I would prefer having this feature exposed as an option on the Readability-ized page rather than when you first style and create the bookmarklet so that you can stick with one bookmark.
MacUserPL said:
Hi!, Readability fails for example here (polish newspaper site):
http://wyborcza.pl/1,99218,8415031,Milosc_zostaje.html
Reader built in Safari 5 works fine – all pages properly loaded and “printed” on screen. Why? :)
Wang Yizhuo said:
Hi, seems Readability does not support multi-page in http://progit.org/book/ch1-0.html (ProGit website).
Anyway, thank to this great programme. It makes my life much better.
Dante said:
On the latest Opera here. I have the default zoom set to 150%, so the scrolling is smooth but overshoots the next page, so it’s useless (the workaround is to use page down).
I know it’s difficult to get the zooming level or the exact view height. Is there a way to easily disable scrolling ? (Opera does page down on space, as most other browsers.)
Nowhere Man said:
No like space bar function. I can’t type Diigo notes because of it. Make it go away or give the option to turn it off please.