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"...will apparently include a Reader functionality that will make web page reading easier by extracting and organizing the text."

Hrm. Sounds a lot like Instapaper.

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Or Readability; http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

Or my project which was based off of readability:

http://toadjaw.com/article?url=http%3A%2F%2F9to5mac.com%2FSa...

Great!

What technique are you using to deduce what the content of the page is? A straight port of Arc90's open source code or some magic of your own? (I'm asking because I'm keen to improve their technique for a library I'm working on.)

I'd be interested in alternative methods as well. I wrote the algorithms within readability, which are far from perfect.

Can you expand on how it's different/better from readability? What were you hoping to accomplish with your fork?

I tried going to toadjaw.com but was given a login page.

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