two columns of text is the bomb.

jacobolus · on Aug 18, 2009

If it all fits on your screen, maybe. Otherwise, having half the visible content completely disconnected from the other half, separated by a few pages of scrolling, is absolutely pointless.

But I copy things into http://amarsagoo.info/tofu/ to read. That is “the bomb.”

boredguy8 · on Aug 18, 2009

Why copy when you can bookmarklet: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

jacobolus · on Sept 2, 2009

Well actually I use an OS X service, so it's just a single keyboard shortcut.

But Tofu is much nicer for reading long prose than the Readability bookmarklet. Try it some time.

metachris · on Aug 18, 2009

Tofu looks nice -- interesting idea to make text more easily readable by splitting it into many columns, each as high as your window is.

Someone really needs to make a web version out of that! Shouldn't take too long, and I bet many users don't want to download and install an extra piece of software for that.

movix · on Aug 18, 2009

I hope that 'someone' is the original creator, and not a someone who nabs a really cool idea for themselves. I didn't DL it for exactly the reason you commented on. If it was a web version, I'd use it all the time.