Since newsletters maintain their original formatting, they don’t always look the best and can be down right unreadable. For example, this Bloomberg newsletters is centred; which means it overflows and I cannot read it on the iphone. Even on my Mac, its not perfect as the formatting looks off.
Is there a way to strip some HTML formatting and/or have an option for using reader view on Newsletters?
Brilliant idea! I just launched the change so newsletters now have their full text extracted in the Text view. Thanks for bringing this to my attention!
Perfect thanks for this!
But for me, the text extract is missing a lot of content. You can see as this is the newsletter I tried, which is missing text.
I’m not sure what else we can do, short of commiting to the Mercury Reader project which is performing text extraction. I tested it on a dozen newsletters and it worked for 11 of them. It’s hard to debug because newsletters are so far out of the ordinary for the text extractor, esp. because I would think it would work with ease. The reality is that there’s a lot of assumptions going into extracting text out of full web pages that are costly to remake for newsletters, so we’re stuck with this useful system with edge cases.
