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This may be either something obvious I have missed not not possible. I'd rather not have to adjust the size of the text in my browser. Any way to do this? Something to size the text as I can do with Readability would be ideal

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I successfully used = and - to change the font size in Google Reader alone. Unfortunately, it doesn't save your settings.

I couldn't find a solution using Readability, but you could try some Greasemonkey scripts. Userscripts.org has a great repository of scripts. There's a script specifically for Bigger Fonts.

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Thanks, will try that route. – Chris Ballance Nov 23 at 4:53
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Yes, that's the correct way of doing that. What you want to do is to add a "font-size:1.2em;" to the "entry" class. – Lo'oris Nov 25 at 11:39
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I'd rather not have to adjust the size of the text in my browser.

Did you know that these days, some browsers will adjust your font size on a per-site basis? This might be a solution for you (like Ctrl-+ in Google Chrome). If not, please let us know why you don't want to adjust your browser font size.

Another option is always to go for user stylesheets...

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+1 Didn't realize the browser would save these settings per site. Thanks for the tip! (I use Chrome primarily) – Chris Ballance Nov 23 at 4:43
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Unfortunately that increases the size of the sidebar as well, cutting down usability significantly. User stylesheets would work, but no user should have to go through that just to make the text readable. – Chris Ballance Nov 23 at 4:53
The side bar in Google Reader can be collapsed by clicking the dividing line between it and the reading pane. Perhaps that will help the readability? – Stephen Jennings Nov 28 at 20:49
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I don't use google reader, but on my computer, simply pressing "Ctrl +" makes text larger and "Ctrl -" makes the text smaller.

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Thanks, but I was looking for another route that would save my tex-size setting only for Google Reader. – Chris Ballance Nov 23 at 4:44
Unfortunately that increases the size of the sidebar as well, cutting down usability significantly – Chris Ballance Nov 23 at 4:52
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As i dont know what broswer you have i will tell you how to make text bigger on IE, Firefox and opera

Firefox
http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/win/seeing/text/browser/firefox2.shtml

Internet Explorer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/win/seeing/text/browser/explorer7.shtml

Opera
http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/win/seeing/text/browser/opera9.shtml

Or you can hold down "crtl" and move the mouse wheel backwards and forwards to adjust text size

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Might want to separate out the links a little bit. Maybe give them a title instead of making the link text the URL. – T Pops Nov 20 at 17:24
Agree on the needed editing: please add some line breaks or something! – Adam Ryan Nov 23 at 2:55
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If you use Firfox, and you have a bit expierence with CSS, you could install the FF-Addon "Stylish". This addons's like Greasemonkey, but for CSS.

You could override Google's Reader-CSS with your own. For example to make the textsize bigger.

~Chris

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Just seen the comment of Lo'oris where he says that the correct class would be entry. So this might work in stylish: `.entry { font-size:1.2em !important; }` Not tested though. – cimnine Nov 27 at 11:36
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Safari handles text sizing separately for each tab/window open so increasing the text size in one tab won't affect others and won't affect the default text size either.

I'm not sure if the other browsers act the same or not regarding text size affecting the default sizing. I just normally increase the size and close the tab when I'm done.

Alternately, you might see about using a custom .css style sheet for your browser for this task. I'm not a web developer, so I can't contribute. But for example, there exist Ad Blocking CSS and all manners of interesting things.

Also, you might want to look through here for a script that will work with the Grease Monkey plugin for Firefox: http://userscripts.org/scripts/search?q=google+reader

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Alternatively, you can go to View on the toolbar and there should be a menu to increase/decrease the text size of the page you are viewing.

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