Sneak peek of Times Reader

You may remember some time ago Microsoft announced it’s working with the New York Times to come up with a more user-friendly way to read the news, from the internet to mobile devices. For example, reading a longer story on the web requires you to hit the page down button as you go, breaking up your reading momentum. Explains NYTimes.com’s Nick Thuesen, “Times Reader, with the help of some sweet controls from Microsoft’s .NET Framework 3.0, will determine the viewing size of your content and paginate it into columns and pages… making for a nice, neat, tidy and most important, readable experience.” It also uses the exact same font as the paper. See below for a screen grab, and click here for full screen. Times Reader is “close to hitting beta release,” Thuesen promises. (Via Fimoculous)