Both services are, in essence, the spiritual heirs of a browser plug-in called Readability.
Its larger screen allows users to see content clearly and vividly, with much enhanced readability.
Support for Pocket, formerly Read It Later, and Readability to save articles to read later.
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Tayman says other popular options, such as Instapaper and Readability, may be added in the coming days.
The Kindle's readability has recently improved and its priced has been lowered. (See "The Coming E-Book Boom").
One important trick that any popular historian must master is that of achieving a balance between rigour and readability.
According to Rich Ziade, founder of Readability, it boils down to attention.
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The Pebble team calls its watch's display an e-paper display, in order to highlight its readability in direct sunlight.
The DX, by contrast, has black-and-white electronic ink display built for easy readability.
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This is the remote-readability of the chip, combined with the lack of encryption of the data held on it.
At the same time I enjoy taking note of brand-name readability, shelf positioning, the attention-drawing power of competing package designs.
We'll admit that Apple's solution is easier on the eyes, but accuracy trumps prettiness (and occasional at-a-glance readability) any day.
Evidently he is trying to strike a balance between readability and strict accuracy, and seems to favour the former over the latter.
The formation of the prize was announced in October 2011 amidst criticism about the decision by Man Booker judges that year to focus on "readability".
This story has been edited slightly from an original version for readability.
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When that occurs, then the tablet will perform the same functions as your blackberry handset, with the ability to scale fonts for readability.
But a spat about how important readability is to high-class fiction - as the Booker chair Stella Remington discovered last year - will do.
The aesthetics of a service like Readability are hugely important in enabling that sense of intimacy, that pleasure in the written word that readers crave.
In that process of taking a messy page and making it beautiful Readability gets at something essential about the unique challenges of consuming content online.
The irony is that this involves eliminating the remote readability that was envisaged to be such a crucial feature of the system in the first place.
The secret to Pebble's weeklong battery life and daylight readability is a technology similar to what's penetrated the lives of bookworms young and old: an e-paper display.
Weighing just over one pound, the sleek half-inch-thin device features a transflective display that combines both transmissive and reflective modes for ideal readability in all light conditions.
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With a 720p HD Reality display powered by the outfit's Mobile BRAVIA Engine, you'd expect superb readability from the handset, especially in the dim light of this event.
Every font on Kindle Paperwhite is hand-tuned for maximum readability.
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The Optimus 4X HD provides white background for the e-mail and message screen that users frequently use and True HD IPS allows for more accurate reproduction of white that enhances readability.
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Formerly known as the Literature Prize, the award was first announced in 2011 amidst a row in literary circles about the decision by Man Booker judges that year to focus on "readability".
Obviously for readability reasons this original message could not have been encrypted (also Tor does not provide encryption), but it could have been anonymized as to location and that is precisely what Tor was designed for.
All of the stories can be easily viewed on a mobile device, such as a Kindle and an iPad, by signing up for tools that format Web text for smaller screens, such as Instapaper, Readability or Read It Later.
We played around with it a bit, and while the 800 x 600 E Ink screen resolution is a little disappointing, and the resistive touchscreen layer impacts readability in a small but noticeable way, the software is certainly pleasant, and iriver is up to its usual standard in hardware design.
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