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The formatting is hell to read and Googling for a better one goes back to that copy. But it's worth it!
by mikecane 16y ago
The formatting is hell to read and Googling for a better one goes back to that copy. But it's worth it!
- mbup 16y agoEasier to read with the Readability bookmarklet: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
- 0abdd0e66h 16y agoOr you could do ctrl+mweehlup ?
- Pyrodogg 16y agoMy eyes would bleed all to frequently if this gem didn't exist.
- jlees 16y agoSome URL fiddling produces http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:LowLevelEntityToPrint_CREST&Type=text/html&Locale=english-skin-custom&Path=TCRM/2010/09/11&ID=Ar01200 http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style... A little easier, but I'm not up to the masochism required to go any further. :)
- mattparcher 16y agoI much prefer this version, combined with Readability or some other tool (Safari Reader here). I would like to see the original URL changed to this (not sure if that’s possible).
- spydez 16y agoThe original URL + Readability work fine for me.
- pathik 16y agoIt's a mobile optimized version. The online version of this paper is very badly designed. Sorry, but yes, the article is definitely worth it.
- 10ren 16y agoAnother option is to resize browser window width, to get about 10-13 words per line; and crtl-+ for larger text.
- marklubi 16y agoI suggest the http://www.readability.com/ http://www.readability.com/ bookmarklet. There's still some missing punctuation (source issues) but it's quite a bit better
- auxbuss 16y agoReadability is great for reformatting most articles. It's also excellent for anyone with a visual impairment, or simply when the font is too small on a monitor. There are plug-ins that use it for firefox and chrome.
- Locke1689 16y agoIt's not just poor formatting, the person who wrote this simply doesn't speak English well. For example: And this majority has never been able to fathom or accept the loner a mentally sound individual with non-aligned sensibilities,who,for reasons genetic and/or nurtured,simply views the world differently,and correspondingly resides in it unlike the rest.Know man is an island,too.
- 10ren 16y agoIt's unnecessarily convoluted but correct, eg "accept the loner [as] a mentally sound individual" is a legitimate construction and "[K]now man" is a pun. Philosophers tend to write this way. It's just that it's not punchy and to-the-point, like business writing or advertising.
- Locke1689 16y agoKnow man is obviously a pun but there should be an as or a comma after loner. I'm a philosophy minor so I understand flowery language but I don't accept it when it confuses the point. Hume managed to be quite intelligible despite living hundreds of years ago.
- akshayubhat 16y agoWell he has Indianized English Grammatical style.
- kranner 16y agoThat's a nice little pun on "No man is an island."
- mikecane 16y agoWhen I cleaned up the quote for my blog, I did it as: "accept the loner: a mentally-sound individual with non-aligned sensibilities"
- Eight 16y agoI couldn't read it in its current form. Readability redux really does a good job making it easier to read.