Reading Online

Interesting. I'm definitely able to scan the example text far faster using this mention.

This tool would help me understand some of the over complicated text that's in my school books. I think it would have the opposite effect on any book with a less complicated writing style.

I feel like (after looking at examples and so on) this actually makes it harder to read quickly. Maybe a 9th grader can concentrate easier on this stuff but I skim text a lot and this just seems annoying. And don't even get me started on the wasted space, I can't imagine a web app with any amount of copy on it using a style like this.

For samples, see: http://liveink.com/.

I find it somewhat disingenuous that they use a more readable font in a larger text box to show off their supposedly more readable format.

Some things probably don't need to be dumbed down. I've been reading the old fashioned way as long as I can remember and it seems to be working just fine :)

Very nice. Now where's the free web app to cut paste and convert into this format?

Looks vaguely Pythonic. :)

This has vast potential in the language-learning space for people wanting to break into foreign literature.

I'm currently learning a language, and at times I get bogged down in long-winded sentences until someone (kindly) lays out the sentence structure in this type of a format. Then it all makes sense (and is a great aid in learning). No English required.

I believe this web site itself should be presented in VSTF.

This is a typographic nightmare. Not only does it make for a choppy comprehension of the reading, but it also turns the text block into an awkward, unappealing shape.