Bookmarklets

I wrote this first bookmarklet (or favelet) to make reading online as pleasurable as reading articles in Instapaper, the iPhone app that lets you read long web pages later. The second is a weaker byproduct of that effort. Drag either to you bookmark bar.

à la Instapaper

Modeled after the divine reading experience that is Instapaper for iPhone, this sets your page for maximum readability. Narrow columns help you read faster because your eyes never need to check where the next line starts.

Disables all style sheets, sets text to black on white Georgia in the default font size, forces a narrow column for readability, and specifies a comfortable line-height of 1.4em. It does not force <pre> or <code> elements to be in Georgia.

(Updated 2009-05-04 to work better with <iframe>–using pages.)

narrow page

Just tries to force the page to be narrow. Doesn’t work nearly as well as the “à la Instapaper” bookmarklet.