I realize that I don't use prolewiki too often for reading because, let's be honest, there's a lot of clutter on a web page that you don't have when reading a physical book.

To help remedy that, the first phase of my plan is to create a "reading mode" that will remove all clutter from the page and basically let you read uninterrupted. In later phases, as skills and software permit, I will also look at saving your place in the page in some way (maybe a % read bar so that you know where to scroll to when you come back), AND, one thing I've always wanted to do, allow users to highlight text and add notes locally so they can annotate PW books for themselves.

But one thing at a time.

For the time being, this is what the reading experience looks like on desktop (mobile is already pretty clean so I'm not touching that):

And this is a barebones version of it, with just text basically:

We can of course then think about potentially making it more interesting (maybe doing a sepia mode to reduce blue light, or allowing the gear icon to come back so people can open dark mode or change width) but that's extras on top. I also have to think about how you'd get that mode on and off.

For the time being though, is this something you feel like you'd use or prefer over the 'vanilla' interface when reading on ProleWiki? Would it make you more inclined to use prolewiki to read books on?