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Comment by pertinhower | Hacker News Reader

A hate to trivialize a thoughtful article with a typographical point, but boy do I like my paragraph breaks when I can get them.

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http://www.readability.com/articles/ace2uwfz

I'm trying to find a way to actually make a readability link open up with nice formatting but can't work it out... any tip to avoid having to have people then click on the "switch to Readability view"?

Try this:

  javascript:{v=document.createElement('style');v.innerHTML='blockquote{font-size:14px;width:500px}blockquote div{padding-bottom:8px}';document.body.appendChild(v)};void(0);

I read it in 5 minutes with spreeder:

http://www.spreeder.com/app.php

I used Spreeder to read "War and Peace." It's about Russia.

I see your point :) but for short pieces like this I find I can store most of it in memory. I did jump into the full text a few times to refer back to things.

I probably couldn't tell you much about the article now, but I felt I got it at the time.

There are lots of theories about how we absorb printed information, but few of them are backed up by reliable science. Hopefully this will change in the future. But speed-reading schemes have a particularly spotty record in the cause-effect and repeatable evidence department.

I'm interested - did you actually do this or was it a rhetorical statement?

@587,287 words and 400wpm, War and Peace would take just over 24 hours to read.

Well, while we're there, the HN link title is currently wrong also ("wity" vs "with").

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