Today, I want to share a website I frequently use Eink Mode to read: Business Weekly Online.
After digitization, Business Weekly has divided its content into articles from their main website and articles from Business Weekly Online. The online reading section is essentially the digital version of the print magazine, so this part requires a subscription, just like subscribing to the print magazine.
I started reading Business Weekly by subscribing to the PDF version through Readmoo, initially using an iPad. But after injuring my eyes, I switched to an e-ink reader. However, the downside of the PDF version is that the layout is fixed, requiring constant zooming on smaller devices, especially on an e-ink device where zooming isn't smooth and can be quite cumbersome.
Therefore, when they launched the Business Weekly Online service, I switched to this web format for reading articles. The content automatically adapts to different device sizes, similar to a flowing EPUB format.
Initial Reading Limitations of Business Weekly Online
However, even though they have been offering online reading for a year or two, they still haven't provided a decent note-taking or highlighting system. As a result, whenever I find great points, quotes, or resonances in an article, I can't highlight or annotate those sentences, which means I can't keep some functionalities common in e-readers.
Additionally, an important point is that since they use a scrolling browsing method, you need to keep scrolling and scrolling to read through the entire webpage. This delay and ghosting effect while scrolling on an e-ink reader make the reading experience less comfortable, even though it is indeed easier on the eyes.
Previously, my workaround was to save each article as an EPUB and then download it to my e-ink reader to view through its reading software. But this was so tedious! Sometimes I just want to casually read an article online, and adding those extra steps felt exhausting...
Changes After Using Eink Mode
After incorporating Eink Mode, I can finally highlight and annotate text on the Business Weekly webpage, saving my notes in my browser. When I return to this webpage, I just need to activate Eink Mode, and all the highlights and thoughts from before remain on the page, allowing me to easily find well-structured articles again and review them.
More importantly, Eink Mode transforms webpage articles into a page-by-page format and removes parts of the webpage aside from the main content, making it very comfortable to read on an e-ink tablet; the overall experience feels like reading an ebook.
Therefore, I recommend everyone use Eink Mode to read Business Weekly. My results show that: whether it's their website articles or the online reading content, you can achieve excellent presentation using Eink Mode.
Just a little note: since I am the developer of Eink Mode, I definitely optimize for the websites I frequently visit 😂😂😂