Free online tool that makes reading much easier!
 

This is a great free online tool for helping to make reading articles much easier...

I hate how teeny tiny the text is nowadays on so many online sites. Sure, you can make it bigger by playing around with your browser, but it's a hassle.

Maybe it's because my eyes are getting older, but that tiny text just makes me squint and gives me a headache!

However, there's a free online tool which makes reading any article online much easier...

It's called "Readability".

You just set the settings you like, then drag the link to your bookmarks or favorites.

Then, wheen you hit a page you want to read, just click on that link in your bookmarks or favorites... and everything will be turned into the "style" you like, the text size you like, and the page margins you like!

I use it regularly, especially for reading those longer articles...

Here's the link...

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

Best wishes,

Dien

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You can do it also with your pc mouse, if you have that scroll feature on your mouse; just press ctrl+scroll in your mouse then fonts will change either bigger or smaller depending on your scrolling.

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now that is a cool trick. My old eyes thank you.

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Hi Dien!

Thank you for this post.

Since a stroke that I encountered back in 2005 my eyesight has never been as good as it was. Actually doctors said I would never see again but then they were just my doctor and not my Healer.

Anyway I have been blessed with much of my eyesight coming back but this tool can certainly help me when things get a little hazy as I have recently experienced on occaision.

Thanks again brother.

I hope you are doing well these days.

Randy

Here's another tool to help you save articles to read later...
 

Hi Randy,

I'm glad that this has been useful!

I tend to read a lot online, and I think sometimes I get a lot of "eye fatigue"... So sometimes, I need a little "help" in making some of the text more readable! So this website is something I use a lot of myself...

By the way, another website I use if I want to "save" something to read later, is I use the "Instapaper" website www.instapaper.com . While this is really designed to work with some software for the iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch, you can actually use it with your regular desktop/laptop computer for free.

What it does is you get a free "Instapaper" account. Then, you can save a "bookmarklet" to your Favorites/Bookmarks. Whenever you want to "save" an article you're currently reading in your browser, you click on the little "bookmarklet". That saves it to your "Instapaper" account. You can also have different categories, so you can save directly to the category you want.

Then, when you want to read it later, you just go back into your "Instapaper" account, and see the article saved there. It also saves the text of the article, so if the article later disappears from the website, you still have it!

Then, after you've read it, you can either delete it or "archive" it (which means you can still look it up later in the "archive" section of your account).

(While you don't need an iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch, if you have one of these, you can also use their software to read and organize things using your device.)

Randy, I'm glad that you've "bounced back" quite a lot since your stroke! When you think about it, we all have a lot to be grateful for, in our specific lives...

Me too. My health was terrible for much of this year (mostly weight-related stuff - sleep apnea, high blood pressure, and even possibly diabetes) - but the past few months I've lost quite a bit of weight and these problems have cleared up or improved...

Thanks for your post, Randy!

Best wishes, Dien