We spend a lot of time online. And once we start spending it, we do not stop. Sites like Facebook and YouTube kill our productivity and dumb our brain. Here to refresh the Internet experience by providing you with a dose of smartness is a web service called Daily Pages. Daily Pages is a free [...]
Some websites are filled with so much extra stuff that they can become unreadable. There are adverts, crazy background images, ugly fonts and all kinds of other stuff that make websites hard to read. In some cases, they can be downright ugly. Tranquility is an add on for Mozilla Firefox that is designed to clean [...]
Do you want to know the story about a specific place? Then you should check out Novels On Location. This Google Maps mashup plots the different places of interest and literature related to the place. Novels on Location lets you search for places or books using the search bar. You can zoom through the map [...]
Miitla is an online bookmarking service that helps you bookmark webpages you want to save for referencing later. It makes things easy with the help of its bookmarklet. Hit the bookmarklet and it’ll pull up information from the page like its title and description automatically. You can drag and drop categories or labels onto your [...]
If you are bored or are looking for a free book to read online, give HotFreeBooks a try. HotFreebooks is a website that has a massive collection of more than 20,000 full-text free books. One good feature found on the website is the option to browse books by author or by “Top Rated” ones. Such [...]
The market for clutter-free reading on the web seems to be growing by leaps and bounds. Instapaper and Readability are already fighting for dominance and suddenly we see Evernote jumping into the fray out of nowhere. It has launched a Chrome extension called Clearly that basically does the same thing – clearing the clutter from [...]
Reading Bear is an educational project created by Wikipedia’s co-founder, Larry Sanger, that aims to teach beginner child readers about vocabulary and the concepts of English. At the same time, the child is introduced to the main phonetic patterns of written English. All of this is done with the help of creatively crafted media. It [...]
So you have an assignment and you need to read a book for it. But just looking at the size of the book makes you scared right? Or maybe you just love reading books but take a lot of time finishing one. If this is the case for you, then you should check out Acceleread. [...]
ePub is a format commonly used for eBooks. These files get an actual .epub extension and can be used on any eBook reader, tablet and most smartphones and computers. dotEPUB is a web tool that lets you convert webpages into ePub documents so you can read them on your favorite device. You can use dotEPUB as [...]
When everything is being made simpler with the help of online tools then why not religious books and texts? After all, that’d give students and individuals an opportunity to go through them who otherwise might be weary of reading those heavy hardcover books. eBible is an online tool that makes reading and going through different [...]