[pertinhower]

A hate to trivialize a thoughtful article with a typographical point, but boy do I like my paragraph breaks when I can get them.

[jenrzzz]

http://www.readability.com/articles/ace2uwfz

[Fuzzwah]

I'm trying to find a way to actually make a readability link open up with nice formatting but can't work it out... any tip to avoid having to have people then click on the "switch to Readability view"?

[mayanksinghal]

Try this:

  javascript:{v=document.createElement('style');v.innerHTML='blockquote{font-size:14px;width:500px}blockquote div{padding-bottom:8px}';document.body.appendChild(v)};void(0);

[aaren]

I read it in 5 minutes with spreeder:

http://www.spreeder.com/app.php

[lutusp]

I used Spreeder to read "War and Peace." It's about Russia.

[aaren]

I see your point :) but for short pieces like this I find I can store most of it in memory. I did jump into the full text a few times to refer back to things.

I probably couldn't tell you much about the article now, but I felt I got it at the time.

[lutusp]

There are lots of theories about how we absorb printed information, but few of them are backed up by reliable science. Hopefully this will change in the future. But speed-reading schemes have a particularly spotty record in the cause-effect and repeatable evidence department.

[aaren]

I'm interested - did you actually do this or was it a rhetorical statement?

@587,287 words and 400wpm, War and Peace would take just over 24 hours to read.

[kevincennis]

Well, while we're there, the HN link title is currently wrong also ("wity" vs "with").