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Chrome Extensions for Heavy Readers

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16 pointsCharlesmigli16 comments

Presented as a slide deck - one of the less efficient ways to publish information (to an audience not in an auditorium).

Thx for the feedback I'll make a blog post out of it.

List of extensions: Clearly, tldr.io, Pocket, RSS Subscription, TooManyTabsOpen, Buffer, High Contrast.

Clearly come from Evernote

Why Pocket instead of Instapaper? I'm not sniping, I'm genuinely curious.

as a long-time paying user of Instapaper who recently switched to Pocket, here are my reasons:

  - a desktop mac app is available
  - I really like the 2 View options (article view and text view) as I read a lot of technical articles that include code snippets and these are rendered terribly on Instapaper
  - the iOS apps are snappier and crash way less often
  - search is baked in the apps

the fact it was free didn't enter into consideration at all

I use mostly iReader, It removes the ads/clutters and displays the article in an easy to read view.

Seconding iReader. A really nice tool, exactly right for the job. Works on virtually all sites for me.

Does anyone know of a better, more modern version of zapreader? I use that several times a week for getting through long articles from sites like the Atlantic and the Economist. I can't believe that nobody has picked up that idea and made something really polished.

Your submission history suggests that you are involved in the development of at least 2 of the 7 extensions. (buffer and tldr.io)

Are any of the other extensions your work?

It's disingenuous to pretend to impartially recommend products that you work on.

no link with me, working opensource only. http://lightjs.org

I fail to see where he pretended to impartially review anything.

I actually assumed it was an impartial list. I don't believe he's trying to be misleading, but a disclosure would be nice.

I'm indeed a cofounder of tldr.io but that's not a mystery, Googling my alias will give you my Twitter profile with my bio as the first result.

TLDR.io of course http://tldr.io/tldrs/51112ad2de23f15658000035/read-smarter-n...

That's an awesome improvements of Chrome ! (without Google by the way)

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