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Real Simple magazine has an old but good step-by-step guide to folding an unwieldy broadsheet newspaper for easy reading on the go. It's really just a matter of a few well placed folds, but if you...

Mac OS X only: Freeware application Tofu makes onscreen reading more friendly to your eyes by creating a multi-column, newspaper-like interface to your daily reading material. Rather than traditional...

Windows only: Browse web forum threads and posts like RSS feeds with Web Forum Reader, a free Windows application. Adding forums you frequent to the app is done through an easy-to-grok wizard, and...

Nowadays, the success of a web site often depends largely upon the Webmaster knowing how to get new visitors to visit the site. It might not be enough to merely rely on the normal way that search engines find and rank your site.

Got some downtime at the office but don't feel comfortable pulling out a paperback to get some reading in on-the-job? Web site Read at Work serves up public domain works in PowerPoint-looking chunks....

From blogs and online newspapers to calendars and social networking sites, the internet is a constant flow of information directed straight at your already full brain. Luckily, everything offers an...

If you spend any amount of time on the web, you're doing yourself a disservice if you haven't found a decent RSS newsreader to keep on top of your favorite web sites. If you aren't using one, it's...

Newsreaders are a blessing for anyone who wants to stay on top of the constant flow of information available on the web, but if you're not careful your feedreader can get so clogged and disorganized...

Blogger Steve Rubel discusses his methods for mitigating the Attention Crash caused by modern information overload while remaining well-informed. In the midst of all the demands new technology and...

Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): If you're sick of clicking through to subsequent pages of online articles, Firefox extension Repagination adds an option to your context menu to pull all of the...

Want a free ebook copy of a Kurt Vonnegut novel? Free ebook site Wowio has five of them, along with lots of other copyrighted fiction, literature, comics, and other works. The site offers the wares...

Web site BookLamp analyzes books by writing style, recommending new books you might liked based on how closely they match your previously loved reads, very similar to how music web site Pandora...

Consume and absorb more information by learning nifty speed-reading tricks. The key is organization. Prioritize the information by deciding what to read first. A news story might beg for your...

Windows/Linux only: Free, open source application WorldFlashReader speeds up your reading skills by flashing words in quick succession on a large display window. The result is—or at least is...