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Comment by jrnkntl | Hacker News Reader

Safari Reader is like Readibility but then without Readability:

"Safari Reader makes it easy to read single and multipage articles on the web by presenting them in a new, scrollable view without any additional content or clutter. When Safari 5 detects an article, users can click on the Reader icon in the Smart Address Field to display the entire article for clear, uninterrupted reading with options to enlarge, print or send via email."

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Interesting move here. Apple is essentially providing a baked-in capability to "skip" ads within Safari on the desktop while simultaneously preparing to launch their own Mobile ad service.

They include an acknowledgment to Arc90 and Readability on their acknowledgements page.

file:///Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/Acknowledgments.html

Can you post it or pastebin for those who don't have it? Thanks!

It reads:

  Arc90 ( Readability )
  Copyright © Arc90 Inc.  Readability is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Followed by the Apache 2 license.

  Acknowledgments
  Portions of this Apple Software may utilize the following copyrighted material, the use of which is hereby acknowledged.

Then after several other acknowledgements:

  Arc90 ( Readability )
  Copyright © Arc90 Inc.  Readability is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Followed by a full copy of the Apache License, V2

I really like that it works with articles spread over multiple pages. Tried it on NYTimes and Ars Technica.

I tried it with some AnandTech/TomsHardware pages, and it worked on their 10+ page articles as well. Makes reading those type of sites a lot less irritating.

I'd love to see this feature in Chrome/Firefox/etc, so sites would stop splitting content into bite size chunks to up pageviews.

They seem to get their page views either way, so that regrettably won’t stop them.

Reader is a really nice feature. I like the way it's implemented. Bonus points for the fact you can add the nicely formatted readable version to Evernote as a PDF.

I very much like the idea but don't like at all how it is implemented. I would like to have it as a simple HTML page. I.e. where I can resize the browser window to whatever width and I never get horizontal scrollbars. And that there is no extra right/left border.

Maybe let's call this thing 'strip-everything-away-except-the-text'.

And I want it in Chrome, not in Safari. :)

Hm, now where I am thinking of it, it actually should be possible to just implement such a Chrome extension.

After using it a bit I want two things: 1) Integration with iBooks 2) Full screen.

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