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GReadable - readability bookmarklet for Google Reader

Friday, August 20, 2010 { 3 Comments }

My friend Mirko suggested me that it would be nice if I can extend my readability project ClipR for better Google Reader support . ClipR works well with Google Reader but is not very user-friendly because you must refresh the browser for every Google Reader article.

So I decided to copy the typography from ClipR and to make completely new bookmarklet only for Google Reader.

So what basically GReadable does is expanding the article reading area inserting bigger more readable monitor optimized . You can learn more about the typography used on my previous post about ClipR typography .

Here how the text will look like before and after inside Google Reader:

Before


After


The text example is taken from Smashing Magazine article The Web Design Community Offers Advice To Beginners

Here is the bookmarklet:

GReadable   - Drag the link to your browser bookmark toolbar, then go to Google Reader page and click it.

All Google Reader articles will be modified and they will stay modified until you don’t exit or refresh Google Reader page.

I also made greasemonkey script install it here.

I will appreciate your thoughts and suggestions. Please comment.

3 Responses to “GReadable - readability bookmarklet for Google Reader”

1. //  Boon // 8/20/2010

   hi - good work! Is there any way to "revert" it back to the original view, e.g. clicking on a button.  

2. //  Vladimir // 8/20/2010

   @Boon: Thanks! Just simply refresh the browser (F5)  

3. //  laxmi // 3/14/2011

   thanks for the tip
   how to make this bookmarklet work in Google Chrome?  

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