Sometimes you just want to read an article. You want to focus on the text and subject, without your attention being drawn to various other items. Maybe, you want to have in your face a virtual book that electronically reproduces the paper with black text on white. This opportunity is offered by Readability. Readability is a short JavaScript code that reformat Web pages, keeping only the text and images between paragraphs. Are removed all other elements including columns and side tables. Simplifying web pages with Readability involves two steps: configuration and actual use and we’ll talk about both steps in the following lines.
Firstly, we’ll talk about configurations. You must enter on the official Readability website page and configure the future electronic book. You can choose the page style, text size and page width. In each set there are five options. You can see the next page how will look like, even while you check the available options. You can also check the option Convert hyperlinks to footnotes. This will remove the text links and will display them at the end of the page, as a legend. That is a function to close even more how a book page looks like.
Cool browser Bookmarklet
As we told you right above, we’ll now tell you about using this program. When you finished configuring and you are satisfied with the result set, you must pass the second and final step. All you have to do is pulling with the mouse the Readability button in your browser bookmarks bar. Now, the Web page you want to reformat using the Readability, you must press the Readability button in bookmarks toolbar. Instantly, the page will be converted into an electronic book page.
Readability--the easiest way to a comfortable reading experience
Readability is a so-called Bookmarklet. This term defines a small web tool that uses the same principle as browser bookmarks. For those who read a lot on the Internet, the method provided by Readability may help them to stress-less their eyes.11
