[jimmytucson]

To those folks saying, "this is easy to code up in JavaScript" or "Pelican already does this for you" -- does it do it for you for other people's content?

I like this because I can just plug in the URL of any old article I might want to read and see what I'm getting myself into, e.g. http://klopets.com/readtime/?url=http://www.newyorker.com/ma.... Now that I know it's a 15 minute read, I'll probably save it for later.

This would be great as a browser plugin.

[monkmartinez]

I like your username...

You are right, and thanks for pointing that out. I can generally tell how long it will take to read an article with a little scroll and a glance at the scroll bar. If the scroll bar is small, reading is going to take a while and vice versa.

[camillomiller]

Unless you have sites full of Facebook comments and bullshit taboola content at the bottom

[gedrap]

Great to hear that you have this problem, because in the evenings, I am working on a little extension of Pocket that automatically groups saved links by the length of content :) so it's not only me who has the problem, heh.

I have a lot of quality content marked for later and not knowing how long it is (especially when e.g. commuting to work when I have 10 minutes only) is rather annoying. And managing the list isn't something I fancy doing myself (we have computers for that!).

Drop me an email (in my profile) if you want to talk a bit more about this problem.

[ca1668afa68]

https://github.com/gabconcepcion/chrome-extension-read-time-...