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Comment by ironkeith | Hacker News Reader

As soon as I see eye filth like that I go right to my readability bookmarklet:

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

80% of the time, it works every time.

Oh you rock, this is awesome. As soon as I opened the link for this news item I closed it immediately due to the complete lack of readability. Someone buy the man a book on typography, please!

A tool as brilliant as this, combined with an audience that reads tons of articles spread all over the internet every day, surely it deserves its own thread?

I can see myself using Readability to format most of the articles I read online now.

Thanks for the link!

It had its own thread a while back

I think sometimes a duplicate is valid, after all I read through HN 2-3 times a day and I still managed to miss the thread for this the first time around.

This comment was more valuable than the article. Thanks!

There's also always View -> Page Style ->No Style

And Ctrl + (Repeat until satisfied)

Definitely... I have Verdana as my default font and I Ctrl+ and Ctrl- my way all over the web.

How about setting a suitable default zoom level? That way you only have to sometimes decrease it.

( At least Opera supports this, don't remember about Firefox )

At least the last time I set up a computer for an elderly relative, it required an extension, I think it's called Default Pagezoom.

And Ctrl-0 returns to default size. Before I knew this I was more resistant to temporarily adjusting font size because of the annoyance of then returning to default size.

I always just "(Dis)allow pages using their own fonts" + a readable minimum font size. That makes browsing much more comfortable for me and doesn't break too many sites (only very rigid table layouts, most of the time crappy online shops).

btw, if you are using conkeror(or may be vimperator), use this tip to bind it to a key(I bind it to 'z'). Much easier. http://conkeror.org/Tips#Makethecurrentpagereadablebyremovin...

What a fabulous little tool! Thanks for the link.

You just made my day. Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

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