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Repagination Pulls Multi-Page Articles into One
Posted by Adam Pash at 6:00 AM on May 2, 2008
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 pages onto one. After installing the extension, just right-click a page's Next link (or the 2 link, for example) and select to view all pages or a limited number. Repagination will load the pages you tell it to inline at the end of the current page so you don't have to reload at every turn. I tested it on Lifehacker, this barefoot walking article, and Google, and it worked flawlessly with all of them. The only downside is that it loads the entire subsequent page and not just the text, but it's better than the annoyance of multi-page articles. Repagination is free, works wherever the 'fox runs.
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joelena
Posted 6:19 AM 2/5/08
Whenever I see page numbers and a "next" link at the bottom of an article, I look for a "Print" link.
Here for instance, is the printable version of that NY Mag barefoot walking article:
[www.printthis.clickability.com]
Rather than loading all 6 pages with all the adds and sidebars and links, you get a nice wide view of just the article (often, unfortunately, without images) with all that crap stripped away.
It doesn't work with blogs or Google, as this extension does, but it gets you cleaner results on all those sites that are just trying to get you to look at more adds.
joelena
Adam Pash
Posted 7:06 AM 2/5/08
@joelena: Agreed, that's worth including. I do the same, though like you said, not all such articles have a printable version.
Adam Pash
jokecricket
Posted 6:19 AM 2/5/08
Wow..I think I was looking for something like this..thnx a lot..
jokecricket
felipelang
Posted 6:09 AM 2/5/08
Wow! It works nicely!!!
Thanks for the tip Adam!
felipelang
Jon
Posted 8:34 AM 2/5/08
@joelena: I do the same, and if there's no print link, I often just stop visiting that site.
I do think it's ok to paginate comments (or at least not load them all by defualt) though, it can be annoying to wait for a heavily commented article to load.
Jon
jeromy
Posted 9:06 AM 2/5/08
Note: This is not yet available for FF3b5.
Worth bookmarking though. :)
jeromy
Lazarus
Posted 9:50 AM 2/5/08
I cant wait for this to be for FF3. Great find Adam.
Lazarus
Swimming_Bird
Posted 10:06 AM 2/5/08
There's also another pagnation addon here: [addons.mozilla.org] I havnt tried it yet.
Swimming_Bird
Swimming_Bird
Posted 10:01 AM 2/5/08
Is this better, worse, or the same as auto pagerize GS script [userscripts.org]
Swimming_Bird
kureshii
Posted 11:38 AM 2/5/08
Whoa, that sounds great! Going to try it out, thanks again LH (Adam)!
kureshii
Torley
Posted 1:59 PM 2/5/08
I haven't tried this yet, but I've been looking for something like this. I really wonder why so many places awfully and artificially split pages up... is it to inflate the # of hits or ad views?
In some cases, you can view the whole list by clicking the "Printer Friendly" link, but in times where that doesn't work, I suppose there's this!
Torley
koalasthewise
Posted 1:43 PM 2/5/08
Wow! Sounds great for browsing something like DeviantArt. Only one fatal flaw-no 3 beta 5 support!
koalasthewise
jordan314
Posted 8:03 PM 2/5/08
Neat.
I also propose a next and previous HTML tag, combined with keyboard shortcuts assigned to them in browsers, to make life easier. This would be for blog postings, slideshows, articles, music sites, video sites, whatever, and would be up to the web designer to assign them. I think that would be sweet.
jordan314
lavidamd
Posted 10:36 PM 2/5/08
I tried it and it works great! Thanks!
lavidamd
OnwardChristianLaettner
Posted 11:10 PM 2/5/08
This may just make TWOP readable again!
OnwardChristianLaettner
angrykeyboarder
Posted 3:17 AM 3/5/08
I used a similar Greasmonkey hack for Google. I got rid of it very quicky. Google something and see 10+ pages of hits returned and you'll never stop scrolling.
angrykeyboarder
unrealfighter
Posted 8:49 AM 2/5/08
Brilliant addon :) Thanks LH!
unrealfighter
aelhelw
Posted 7:41 AM 2/5/08
I used to do the same thing as joelena, so what caught my eye in this extension is the ability to work with search results, and not just multi-page articles. This will definitely come in handy!
aelhelw
ICEBreaker
Posted 7:28 PM 3/5/08
I wasn't going to bother with this add-on, until I came across a LH article two items down called "Common Cooking Mistakes". It had 5 pages - FIVE. "Damn it", I thought to myself, before coming over here and adding the add-on! Ha ha. Thanks for the tip.
ICEBreaker