Readability

by Mike Macadaan

arc90 has developed a clever way to clean up web pages in order to make it easier to consume content.  With a simple customizing tool, you can specify your reading preferences with characteristics like style (newspaper, novel, ebook or terminal), size and margin.  Your settings are saved to a bookmarklet that upon click will remove everything on any web page except the article, photos and anything else that is relates to the article.

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There are similar services popping up like TinyRead and a nifty app called PrintWhatYouLike that allows you to format web content for printing.

Try it: Drag the link below to your browser’s bookmark bar then click the bookmark to see Readability in action.