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That's what it looks like to me with my browser maximized. How people design things like this and don't do a quick check to make sure it works well for different reasonable browser window dimensions is beyond me.

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I employ the 'readable' bookmarklet for situations like this. http://readable.tastefulwords.com/

Yeah, that's what I eventually ended up doing. I only bothered to turn on my bookmark toolbar and use it in this case though because I had a particularly strong interest in reading this article. In most other cases I would have passed it by.

Did you try making it narrower? It hides the floaty sidebar thing when the window is narrower than the main page content.

Totally unintuitive, but better than leaving it there, which is what most sites do.

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