Okay, so I started reading this and got excited to see what this was all about. I've been wanting a web browser that can turn the "regular web" (as much as possible) into something more like an e-book that happens to have hyperlinks.<p>Essentially, imagine Reader Mode, but all the time.<p>But this is... something else? I tried scrolling to the bottom and as soon as I click on the scroll bar, I get a pop-up showing a bunch of gestures and can no longer scroll. Pressing the back button does nothing. Closing the tab asks me if I want to discard my unsaved changes?!<p>So I'm guessing this is some CSS/JS to make a regular site _behave_ something like an e-reader? Which may be fine as far as it goes, I just don't think it's a good idea to hijack the scroll
The article contains a paragraph about ads and it reads like a nightmare:<p>> The full-page advertisement you saw on the previous page is an example.<p>> the paginated website design opens up new possibilities for ad placement and presentation, allowing for innovative approaches in terms of ad type, location, size, and interaction compared to traditional scrolling.<p>> highlighted and annotated sections often represent the user's key interests, allowing for more targeted and relevant ad placements<p>> ads embedded in the website will be included in these downloaded PDFs, increasing ad exposure each time the user reviews the PDF file.<p>> Paid subscribers could download ad-free PDFs, while non-paying users receive PDFs with embedded advertisements, providing a tiered reading experience.
This, the same as dark mode, and media queries etc, all completely undermines the core idea of the web - a semantic representation of data, rendered by a user agent, according to the users preferences.<p>CSS & JS are the opposite.<p>Yes, I realize it's a losing battle, but it's a depressing thing nonetheless.
This is something genius from the article:<p>"WYSIWYG Printing (PDF Saving)<p>When printing web pages, browsers typically use a default pagination algorithm that rearranges the content based on the printed paper size. This ensures images aren't cut off by page boundaries. However, this pagination isn't tailored to the user's current device screen size. Instead, it uses standard paper dimensions like A4, A3, or B5. As a result, when downloading a PDF on a small-screen device using A4 sizing, the text may appear too small to read comfortably in a PDF reader, requiring zooming. This leads to the same issues as general web page zooming: inability to view full lines of text and the need for constant horizontal scrolling.<p>In Eink mode, pressing the print button will produce a PDF that mirrors the screen's display. While the paper size might be larger, resulting in surrounding whitespace, using an E Ink device's native PDF reader (such as Onyx's Neoreader) to automatically crop the margins will create a PDF that exactly matches the on-screen view. All highlighted annotations and handwritten notes will be preserved in their original page positions, achieving a true 'What You See Is What You Get' experience. This allows users to conveniently save and later review content on the same device without text size issues."
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In lieu of an e-ink monitor, I use a hotkey to toggle "Grayscale" filtering on my Mac.<p>It's taking some of the addictiveness out of my screen viewing.
Side note: is there any eink monitor someone recommends? I have a macbook pro, a macbook air and a remarkable pro. The Remarkable pro (has colors) flickers way too much. My macbook pro also uses miniled which dries my eyes. It is using PWM I figured (work laptop, so I used it docked). I want an eink monitor with no flickers, that is easy on the eyes. The macbook air screen is great compared to the macbook pro (does not use PWM). I thought I don't need color on the eink monitor, but syntax highlighting helps ... Maybe I am just getting old ha, but I sit in front of monitors for 10-12 hours a day
I wish this was supported by default in the Kindle browser. I wonder if there was a way to make it an extension or a wrapper and make it available in eink device browsers. But it seems that even this blog post page is not supported in the Kindle browser. (I don't see the eink mode icon.)<p>The requirements for me are simple, primarily to make consuming web content on my kindle scribe easier.<p>* Instead of scrolling by finger gestures (which is a pain to watch on slowly-refreshing eink), have two buttons on the side to do page up and down.
* Disable animations
* Ability to increase/decrease font size.<p>I attempted to make this happen for my mastodon feed [here](<a href="https://keheliya-slowdon.web.val.run/" rel="nofollow">https://keheliya-slowdon.web.val.run/</a>). source available [here](<a href="https://www.val.town/v/keheliya/slowdon" rel="nofollow">https://www.val.town/v/keheliya/slowdon</a>). Then there's [Kindly RSS reader](<a href="https://github.com/nicoan/kindly-rss-reader">https://github.com/nicoan/kindly-rss-reader</a>)<p>The goal is to be able to access all the text content that I consume regularly without much pain on a kindle.
Love this idea!<p>I have been working on a way to turn your phone into a better reader device with <a href="https://astropad.com/bookcase" rel="nofollow">https://astropad.com/bookcase</a>
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A little off topic, but Figures 12 and 13 show optical coherence tomography images of Kindle Paperwhite display layers. The E-Ink, touch screen electrodes, and lightguide layers are shown.
Really like this.<p>In Safari on iOS this works great. If this combined dark mode and reader mode font sizes I’d call my favorite way to read the mobile web.
Honestly now I want "paged mode" as an option in my browsers next to "reader mode". Or a thing I can choose for reader mode to involve.<p>Flipping pages on my desktop with l/r arrow keys (which is what this 'eink mode' does if you invoke it on a desktop) instead of endlessly scrolling is <i>pretty nice</i>.