In Microsoft Word, there’s a little-known feature about the application Readability Statistics that allows a user to display readability statistics as a part of the spelling and grammar check.

Have you ever tried to read something only to be put off by its difficulty? It happens to everyone, even the best educated and well-read people. Personally, I’ve tried to tackle “Moby-Dick” on three ...

Institutional review boards (IRBs) are charged with safeguarding potential research subjects with limited literacy but may have an inadvertent role in promulgating unreadable consent forms. We ...

The popular bookmarklet from Arc90 relaunches as a paid subscription service that hopes to reboot how content gets read — and paid for — on the web. Rich Ziade, the original creator and designer of ...

As Web sites have gotten more and more complex, many Web pages have become more and more difficult to read. Type is smaller, page layouts are getting more cluttered, and ads and other objects are ...

First, a little bit of history. Readability has its roots in content, specifically, reformatting pages to make them more readable, hence the name. However, their original plan to monetize this by ...

Make pages with bad layout easier to read with Readability, a bookmarklet that will reformat a story's layout with simple text. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, ...

The official Readability app for iOS, available today on the App Store, had a complicated history with Apple and its approval process. Since Readability relaunched last year with an ambitious focus on ...

Oftentimes throughout the day I’ll run across interesting blog posts or other web pages that I simply don’t have time to read at that moment, or would prefer to read at my leisure. Several ...