I’ve been using Readability more and more recently. I’m not exactly an early adopter in this case, but I’m glad I found it. It’s an app and service that reformats an article into a very easy to read format. It eliminates all the cruft like ads, banners and so forth that accompanies the typical web article.
There are a couple of way it can be used. One is as a “Read Later” service, where an article is saved to a Readability account. The idea being that the article can be accessed through the Readability application on a smartphone or tablet or computer browser.
The other way to use it is as a “Read Now” service, where the article of interest reformatted on the push of a button. These buttons are available easily enough from their website for desktop browsers like IE, Chrome or Safari. Unfortunately, they don’t have anything for mobile browsers.
Fortunately, someone figured out how to create a bookmarklet for a mobile browser to achieve the same affect.
I’ve been using the Dolphin Browser on my Nook and I am happy to report that the steps explained at the link work perfectly. Basically, go to the link using Dolphin; copy the Javascript code; create a new bookmark and paste the code into the URL box; finally, save it as a “Read Now” or some other suitable name. To use it, simply tap the bookmark when an article comes up in the browser that you’d like to read.
Trust me, you’ll be happy you did.