I spend quite a bit of my online time reading stuff - following news articles, blogs, camera reviews, stuff like that. My preferred way of reading is through RSS feeds in GoogleReader. But there are some sites that do not publish the full article in the feed, and a click through to visit the site is required.
Once you end up on the site, you are typically faced with a page that has the article you are interested in reading squeezed in between multitude of ads and promotions. This is where Readability comes in, an easy to install “Bookmarklet”, clicking on the “Readability” link in your browser bookmarks bar will immediately transform the web page you are reading into an uncluttered page containing only the article of interest. All this, automatically.
I used it with Google Chrome, being a “Bookmarklet” and not a browser plug-in, it should work seamlessly with all browsers without installation -just dragging and dropping a link will do the trick. You can choose the style, font size and margin for the output page.
My initial trials with common web sites were very positive, I just wish there was an automatic way of doing this rather than having me click on the link every time.
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