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When you get to the last page of an article, it nearly never is a full page. When you page to that page, the display scrolls up just enough to fill the page; but your eye has been trained to move to the top of the page to read further. As a result, you lose track of where you were and have to waste a lot of time skimming the page to figure out where you left off.
If there were _any_ way to make it so the last page scrolled up to put the place you left off at the top of the page (yes, this means that on average most of the last page would be blank), you would do your readers a great service.
As it is now, reading the last page of any article is like reading a paper article with a misprint, where multiple paragraphs from the next to last page are repeated on the last page.
Surely I can't be the only one that finds this behavior maddening?
If there were _any_ way to make it so the last page scrolled up to put the place you left off at the top of the page (yes, this means that on average most of the last page would be blank), you would do your readers a great service.
As it is now, reading the last page of any article is like reading a paper article with a misprint, where multiple paragraphs from the next to last page are repeated on the last page.
Surely I can't be the only one that finds this behavior maddening?
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A simple way to address this in Readability would be to add a full blank page of whitespace at the end of articles. Then the browser will let you scroll down on that last page and keep your place.
For what you're describing, this might do the trick:
div.article-actions.extra-padding {
padding-top: 30em;
}
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I wrote a little JavaScript library called "overleap.js" today. Please check it out on github.com/bekoeppel/….
overleap.js adds a spacer div at the bottom of the page, with a dynamic height. On scrolling, the spacer is expanded and shrinked so that a full length page jump is always possible.
Regards,
Benedikt