eInk Mode: Making web pages easier to read

Posted by amadeuspagel 4 days ago

eInk Mode: Making web pages easier to read(jackscogito.blogspot.com)

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qingcharles 2 days ago||

This sounds like it needs to be a new media query in CSS. It could overlap heavily with the print media query.

mattl 2 days ago||

Really like this.

In Safari on iOS this works great. If this combined dark mode and reader mode font sizes I’d call my favorite way to read the mobile web.

jack101311 1 day ago|

I'm glad to hear that. Thank you.

egypturnash 2 days ago|

Honestly now I want "paged mode" as an option in my browsers next to "reader mode". Or a thing I can choose for reader mode to involve.

Flipping pages on my desktop with l/r arrow keys (which is what this 'eink mode' does if you invoke it on a desktop) instead of endlessly scrolling is pretty nice.

jnsie 2 days ago||

It's a funny old world. Last weekend I jailbroke my Kindle for various reasons but among them to get continuous scrolling. I never imagined people would want anything else on the desktop. Different strokes for different folks, of course...

carlosjobim 2 days ago|||

You can -almost- do this on most browsers by pressing space bar to scroll down and shift+space bar to scroll up. But on phones there is no remedy yet.

For e-ink the problem with space bar scrolling is that it has an animation which messes up the display.

Historically we went from scrolls to pages when the printing press was developed. Digital reading needs to go through the same evolution, it seems.

egypturnash 2 days ago|||

"Almost" is doing a lot of work in this sentence. Lines of text end up halfway off the screen. Sticky headers obscure text and you have to scroll backwards. It's just a messy experience.

carlosjobim 2 days ago||

If you use reader mode, then you won't have those problems.

Bonus: J/K keys will scroll to next paragraph or HTML element.

stuaxo 2 days ago||||

Not sure if it's still there, but when the scrolling was introduced there was a setting to enable or disable it so the old jump mode would work too.

edent 2 days ago|||

On Android you can pair a Bluetooth presentation remote. Up and Down work as Page Up / Down. I use that for reading on my phone and eReader.

darkteflon 2 days ago||

I do this too, on an iPhone and iPad. I keep several remotes scattered around the house and in the car, and have strategically placed either cellotape-backed Magsafe mounts (on things like the car sun visor) or suspension arms (desks, bed).

Sounds overkill, I know - my wife hates it - but if you do a lot of reading on your phone/iPad, your hands will thank you. I have an eReader too (jailbroken Kindle) which I really like, in principle, but between PDF text sizing and reflow issues, it’s often just way easier to break out the iPad in reader mode with one of these remotes.

mdp2021 2 days ago||

If you don't mind the terminal, `lynx` (for example) could do the trick.