Why I love Readability, with screenshots
February 23rd, 2010add-ons, Design & Usability, Firefox, Innovation, Productivity, Reading, Web, Work 5 CommentsReadability is a Firefox add-on that improves the experience of reading long articles in your browser by getting all the extraneous cruft out of the way. I use it every single day and love it to bits.
Here, for example, is a screenshot of what a typical Harvard Business Review article looks like in Firefox (Persona: Save the Bees Plz by monorail cat):
Old Crufty
With the Readability add-on installed, all I have to do is hit a quick keyboard shortcut (alt-cmd-R) and the page will reload and be reformatted by Readability. It looks like this:
New Clean
It’s just so, so much better. arc90, you have made a great thing. Thanks :)
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