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FYI, the actual article is here: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090501/why-circuit-city-failed-and-why-bh-thrives_Printer_Friendly.html http://www.inc.com/magaz

FYI, the actual article is here: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090501/why-circuit-city-failed-and-why-bh-thrives_Printer_Friendly.html http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090501/why-circuit-city-failed... That will save you an interstitial ad and 30 seconds of page load before the "printer friendly" link shows up. Somebody might want to re-point the item.

ciupicri 18y ago
You're right, but wouldn't be fair to let INC earn some money from that interstitial ad?
spatulon 18y ago
That format may be printer-friendly, but it is significantly less readable on-screen. The text fills the browser window, making each line far too long to read comfortably. Bloated pages (both visually and in terms of file size) are a problem, but linking directly to printer-friendly pages is not a suitable fix, IMHO. Avoiding advertising also bothers me (even more than the actual advertisements bother me) in general, because I like information, and information generally costs money to acquire - especially high-quality, reliable information. Newspapers and their investigative journalism appear to be going away, and that makes me sad. Note: I'm not familiar with Inc. magazine, so discussing quality journalism may or may not be entirely relevant in this context.
- Nwallins 18y ago
  > The text fills the browser window, making each line far too long to read comfortably. This is easily rectified by a single click and drag to resize the browser window to your preferred column width. I for one much prefer print links for reading articles.
  - octane 18y ago
    I would rather click zero times and just read the damn thing. If you don't like ads, block them. I like well formatted text that doesn't require user intervention every time I go to a new page. That's sort of the entire fucking POINT of web design.
    - Nwallins 18y ago
      > I like well formatted text that doesn't require user intervention every time I go to a new page. That's sort of the entire fucking POINT of web design. I totally agree. Unfortunately, many commercial pages present poorly-formatted text framed by blinking or brightly-colored distractions. I exercise a bit of user intervention to load the print link -- I just want the text, and I can size the column(s) easily.
- hasseg 18y ago
  > That format may be printer-friendly, but it is significantly less readable on-screen. The text fills the browser window, making each line far too long to read comfortably. Best of both worlds: Open the "printer friendly" version of an article and execute the readability javascript bookmarklet: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

ciupicri 18y ago

You're right, but wouldn't be fair to let INC earn some money from that interstitial ad?

spatulon 18y ago

That format may be printer-friendly, but it is significantly less readable on-screen. The text fills the browser window, making each line far too long to read comfortably. Bloated pages (both visually and in terms of file size) are a problem, but linking directly to printer-friendly pages is not a suitable fix, IMHO. Avoiding advertising also bothers me (even more than the actual advertisements bother me) in general, because I like information, and information generally costs money to acquire - especially high-quality, reliable information. Newspapers and their investigative journalism appear to be going away, and that makes me sad. Note: I'm not familiar with Inc. magazine, so discussing quality journalism may or may not be entirely relevant in this context.

Nwallins 18y ago
> The text fills the browser window, making each line far too long to read comfortably. This is easily rectified by a single click and drag to resize the browser window to your preferred column width. I for one much prefer print links for reading articles.
- octane 18y ago
  I would rather click zero times and just read the damn thing. If you don't like ads, block them. I like well formatted text that doesn't require user intervention every time I go to a new page. That's sort of the entire fucking POINT of web design.
  - Nwallins 18y ago
    > I like well formatted text that doesn't require user intervention every time I go to a new page. That's sort of the entire fucking POINT of web design. I totally agree. Unfortunately, many commercial pages present poorly-formatted text framed by blinking or brightly-colored distractions. I exercise a bit of user intervention to load the print link -- I just want the text, and I can size the column(s) easily.
hasseg 18y ago
> That format may be printer-friendly, but it is significantly less readable on-screen. The text fills the browser window, making each line far too long to read comfortably. Best of both worlds: Open the "printer friendly" version of an article and execute the readability javascript bookmarklet: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/