BookWyrm is a social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next. Federation allows BookWyrm users to join small, trusted communities that can connect with one another, and with other ActivityPub services like Mastodon and Pleroma.
Focused reading.
Naturally.
Bionic Reading is a new method facilitating the reading process by guiding the eyes through text with artificial fixation points. As a result, the reader is only focusing on the highlighted initial letters and lets the brain center complete the word. In a digital world dominated by shallow forms of reading, Bionic Reading aims to encourage a more in-depth reading and understanding of written content.
Webservice like wallabag, but not hosted
Make Medium Readable Again is a Chrome extension and Firefox add-on that improves a reading experience ruined by user engagement tactics. Medium was actually readable once; this extension aims to help people pay attention to writers' words again instead of Medium's UX.
Improves readability by
- Keeping the top navigation bar from sticking around
- Hiding the bottom "Get Updates" bar completely
- Shrinking massive header images
- Hiding "posts meter" bar and Upgrade header button
- Hiding "Open in App" button on mobile
- Blocking the "pardon the interruption" popup
- (Optionally) hiding the clap / share bar
- (Optionally) loading all post images up front, instead of lazy loading as you scroll
- (Optionally) disabling the popup menu that appears when selecting text