Cut the clutter with Readability

Love the content on a Web page, but you're not too crazy about all the extra stuff cluttering up the page (ads, images, multimedia, etc.)? No problem. Just use Readability, a simple bookmarklet (small software program that fits onto your browser's toolbar) tool that aims to make reading on the Web more enjoyable simply by paring out the extra stuff.

Here's how Readability works. Drag the bookmarklet to your browser toolbar, and then the next time you're on a Web page that you'd like to simplify, just click it. Here's a before and after example of a page with Readability applied:

Before

After

Voila! Instant simple Web page. This is also a great tool if you're trying to view a page on an older computer or a machine with slow Internet access.

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