One possible solution would be a button present on every page that would toggle hyperlinks. If pressed, all hyperlinks would disappear. If pressed again, hyperlinks would come back. A ‘reading mode’ toggle.
As you wish: Drag the link on this page to your browser’s bookmark bar. Clicking it on any page will turn all links black and remove the underlines, making links distinguishable from black plain text only through changes in mouse pointer style. Click again to get the original style back.
That exists: Both Readability from Arc90 as well as Instapaper improve your reading experience. The first one additionally features the conversion of hyperlinks to footnotes (with backlinks), the latter one helps you with eBook creation (I load most of the SEP articles I want to read on my Kindle, for instance).
(edit To make it clear: It’s not exactly what has been proposed above, as they also severely alter the layout. A feature, IMHO. /)
The web usability guru is Jakob Nielsen.
One possible solution would be a button present on every page that would toggle hyperlinks. If pressed, all hyperlinks would disappear. If pressed again, hyperlinks would come back. A ‘reading mode’ toggle.
As you wish: Drag the link on this page to your browser’s bookmark bar. Clicking it on any page will turn all links black and remove the underlines, making links distinguishable from black plain text only through changes in mouse pointer style. Click again to get the original style back.
It’s like magic!
That would be useful.
That exists: Both Readability from Arc90 as well as Instapaper improve your reading experience. The first one additionally features the conversion of hyperlinks to footnotes (with backlinks), the latter one helps you with eBook creation (I load most of the SEP articles I want to read on my Kindle, for instance).
(edit To make it clear: It’s not exactly what has been proposed above, as they also severely alter the layout. A feature, IMHO. /)