Readable: A service for reading long-form content on any device

readable.shuttleapp.rs

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This is a "reader mode as a service" just like the Reader View in Firefox/Safari, but with a focus on beautiful typography, it works across all browsers and it provides shareable links (without the need of extensions)

It's very basic, but it can be used to read articles on older devices such as old eBook readers and it could also make content more accessible in regions with low bandwidth or while travelling.

It's available here: https://readable.shuttleapp.rs/

The tutorial on how it was built is available here: https://endler.dev/2022/readable/

(credits to Matthias Endler)

Original author here. Thanks for the submission. I built the service mostly for myself because I have an old Kobo eBook reader and the browser is pretty basic. This works very well, though.

Only after building it I realized that there could be more use-cases; for example when traveling and working from a bad connection. The pages are usually much more lightweight than the original ones and don't contain any trackers.

I don't even have metrics for that service. No idea how many people are using it and I don't care for the most part. That said, if anyone is interested in using the service you can run your own instance and be completely independent.

The code is here BTW: https://github.com/readable-app/readable.

very cool!

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