There are a lot of websites out there that took this website’s advice but not this one’s. I know I’m not the only person out there to stumble on a great resource, see it’s unstyled and difficult to read, and contemplate giving up on it. You can’t change your browser’s defaults without breaking a bunch of stuff on properly styled websites. What to do?

If you trust your browser’s reader mode, that’s great! I’m always paranoid that things that shouldn’t be removed will be.

I figured out you can put some javascript in a bookmarklet that’ll add some real basic readability fixes to a site - max line length, line height, and centering the body - and I’ve gotten some real mileage out of it!

javascript:(function()%7Bbs%20%3D%20document.getElementsByTagName(%22body%22)%5B0%5D.style%3Bbs.maxWidth%20%3D%20%2280ch%22%3Bbs.marginLeft%20%3D%20%22auto%22%3Bbs.marginRight%20%3D%20%22auto%22%3Bbs.lineHeight%20%3D%20%221.5%22%7D)()

bookmark me!

I may try to fiddle with font size with this later. We’ll see!