Readability is a Javascript library for detecting and extracting article content in web pages. We discuss some of the changes we’ve made to the PHP port, as well as how we use it in our applications.
Blocking out ads drastically improves the reading experience, but even more can be done. In this post we’ll look at using a filter list to remove newsletter signup forms and another annoyances.
We’re very happy to have been recommended in two very popular newsletters recently: Recomendo and Morning Brew.
Distuingished Professor of Humanities Alan Jacobs recently wrote a blog post about the difficulties of reading online. His post starts: “Very few sites on the internet are meant to facilitate reading — most are, in fact, designed to inhibit reading.”
Push to Kindle patrons with access to the beta version of the extension can now enable a new setting to preserve links in the Kindle documents produced. Also: listen to the AppStories episode in which Push to Kindle was featured, and learn about the upcoming change to free monthly credits.
This is an update about delivery issues some Push to Kindle users may be experiencing as a result of recent changes to Amazon’s Kindle Personal Documents service.
We’ve updated Push to Kindle with a new interface and a credit system. With much more planned.
We are trialling the new version of Push to Kindle. This is an early release currently only available to our patrons.
We finally have Push to Kindle available in the Apple app store. Push to Kindle is our service for converting web articles into ebooks and delivering them to your Kindle.
Apple is removing support for legacy extensions in Safari 13. They’ve been encouraging developers to build Safari App Extensions instead. We’ve now done that for Push to Kindle and published it on the MacOS app store.