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by dredmorbius 1537 days ago
Essential. I could pretty much have written your Ask HN myself.

I've been using an e-ink tablet for the past year as my principle driver. Mobile browsers ... pretty uniformly suck for various reasons, though I'm finding the mix of Firefox and EInkBro, an e-ink-optimised browser, to be generally useful. Each supports the other's weaknesses.

On desktop, I've extensively tweaked Firefox's Reader Mode through a userContent.css script (I can post that on request), which adjusts the output to my preferences.

A recent discovery has been EInkBro's "save as ePub" feature. Unlike a save-to-PDF, this doesn't merely save individual articles to separate files, but can compile a "book" of articles. This might be a set of daily reading, a set of articles on a given topic, or any other organisational basis you might want. Those can then either be re-opened in EInkBro itself or a separate e-book reader --- I generally prefer the latter as the formatting and controls are better-suited to books.

https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/107958709435468728

But yeah: web design isn't the solution. Web design is the problem.

(A point I've maintained for years now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9041142 https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...)