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Clear your screen of advertisements with one click.

Every once in a great while, I stumble across something online that’s free, useful, and takes about two seconds to install. The folks at Arc90 Lab have designed something that’s exactly that – a bookmarklet that gets rid of anything on any webpage that isn’t text or pictures, leaving you with a clean, easy-to-read screen.

It’s called Readability, and here’s how it works: Choose a style, size, and margin width, then drag the link to your browser’s tool bar. Visit any website and click “Readability” in your toolbar to get a nice, uncluttered view. You can also reload to the original page, print, or email the clean version. It’s like having any content on the web available in e-reader form.

About The Author

Michelle Schusterman

Michelle is a musician, writer, and teacher just trying to see the world while doing what she loves for a living. She's taught ESL in Salvador, Brazil and kindergarten in Suwon, Korea, and now she's a full-time freelance writer living in Seattle (just to keep the city alliteration going). She'll try pretty much any food once and believes coffee is its own food group.

Archived Responses to Technology Bytes: Readability Gets Rid of the Clutter

  1. Abbie says:

    How useful – thanks Michelle!

  2. Michelle says:

    Sure, Abbie! I thought it was pretty cool too.

  3. [...] slept well each night. I haven’t been this pleased with an eye strain solution since I found Readability, which I downloaded last year and still use [...]

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