November 20, 2009
Readability
Readability is one of those incredibly powerful bookmarklets you either know about or you don’t. It reformats content into larger text and removes all ads, sidebars, and other unnecessary distractions. To return a page to normal, all you need to do is refresh. For example, this:
| At the end of my freshman year of college, back in 1936, I flunked five out of five subjects. Flunking three out of five would have made me eligible to report for an invitation to attend some other college in the fall. But men in this three-out-of-five category sometimes had to wait outside the Dean’s office as long as two hours. Men in my group – some of whom had big dates in New York that same night – weren’t kept waiting a minute. It went one, two, three, the way most men in my group like things to go. |
Turns into this:
There, now y’all know.
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I like to combine it with full screen mode and also have Readability as a shortcut so hitting command-4 switches views. Perfect for when I have some free time to knock out the tabs that built up during the week!
I didn’t know about the refresh feature. Thanks.