Ask HN: What is your favorite way to read online content?

Fwiw, pocket is great. ReadEra is perfect for PDF reading.

  @-moz-document url-prefix("about:reader") {
    body {
      background-color: #FFFFFF !important;
      color: #000000 !important;
    }
  }

The most legible style is the style you're most familiar with, so "design" is almost always a negative. I don't care about your unique branding.

- nothing jumping around as i try to read, whole article on one page

- decent contrast (accessibility guidelines says >= 4.5:1)

- ~150% line height

- ~80char line width

- ~16pt font size

One column of centered text with a non-busy black and white background looks great. For a while I read Amazon books like that because I put the online reader in an iframe.

Now I use a HiSense A5 e-Ink screen with a remote control for page turning and I couldn't ask for more.

Pockets uses a readermode view, so it's non tts UI is nicer, so if you don't care about tts just use pocket.

Firefox reader mode is also nice, Firefox preview is great.

All that said, if I stumble on a long form piece of writing that looks interesting, I'll print it!

It prevents fomo, idly browsing sites with content I've already read, etc

And if the content stops being high quality (or starts bring diluted with low quality content), unsubscribing is cheap

Ideally, I would pay ~$1000 per year and have high quality content (no more than 1-2 hours of reading per day) ranging my interests be delivered to my inbox

If something is overly topical, it'll quickly get archived if I didn't end up reading it the day it arrived

I get extremely high quality content and no advertisements, tracking or pop-ups. Also, NetNewsWire is blazing fast.

If you're looking for some RSS recommendations:

[1] An extremely good blog for the latest in Covid related pharmaceutical research: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/

[2] Math with bad drawings: https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/

[3] A blog that analyzes military details in fictional battles: https://acoup.blog/

Something else I've also been practicing is not letting online reading disrupt me at work. If I ever find my concentration drifting, I use an extension which bookmarks it for later (either Google Keep or Pocket). Usually I have a nice backlog for when I'm in the reading mood.

[0]http://feedsub.com

Kobo has no RSS client, though, so for catching up on news feeds, Feedly on my Android phone or tablet. But I've largely stopped using Feedly at all, as my backlog would simply get so far that it started feeling like a chore to get through them.

I recommend longform.org for finding great longform article content.

I have a script which changes my terminal and texteditor colorscheme then calls this script

If I run into anything that looks like it might be intereseting I save it to Instapaper using the browser extension on my workstation, or the app on my phone / tablet.

I also have a handful of email lists that automatically forward into instapaper, and a couple rss feeds that auto send to instapaper (Via ifttt[1]).

When I want to actually consume content I use the instapaper iPadOS app, which has a simple and clean UI. (This can also be done in your browser if you prefer)

[0]: https://www.instapaper.com/ [1]: https://ifttt.com/

helps a lot to read LESS and focus more

This enables distraction free reading and lets me archive the stuff I'm reading.

Used to have a similar workflow with Polar instead of Zotero, but switched to Zotero.

I wrote myself a simple python script so I can send articles from terminal [2].

[1] https://www.fivefilters.org/push-to-kindle/

[2] https://pypi.org/project/url2kindle/

It was my own personal feed for a while, but I've now put it on the homepage of a side project - https://topstonks.com

I get everything I can in there. Email newsletters, hacker news etc are all in here to save my inbox.