Web Wednesday: Readability

Spending a lot of time on the web, I often come across entertaining and useful tools to enhance my productivity online. This week, I'm sharing one of my favorites: Readability.

It's easy to install into any browser by just dragging it to your Bookmarks Toolbar. Then it lets you quickly and easily strip all but the main text out of any web page and re-formats its layout, size, and margins, creating a newspaper or novel-like page for easier text digestion. It doesn't work on every website, but it's amazing for news and magazine sites and lets you read articles with no ads, flashing messages, or other distractions.

Here are before and after shots of an article on The Value of Design in this week's businessweek.com:

before

after

To add Readability to your browser, go here and follow the simple instructions.