notes: You must have this bookmarklet

You must have this bookmarklet

Readability is a superb little bookmarklet that does some css-fu to any web page you're trying to read, and reformats it in a more readable style.

In other words, it instantly turns this:

before

into this:

after

Which is just ace. Fabulous. Love it. Shall be keeping it installed on all future browsers, probably forever.

Problems:

most people you speak to have no idea what a bookmarklet is
even when you stop to explain it, they still have no idea
because the concept of a bookmark that isn't a place on the internet is completely alien to all non-nerds
the same people have no idea that the internet can be messed with like this; they see what's in their browser, adverts and all, and accept it for what it is

I could probably write a book explaining all this to people, but even that won't work. Screencasts might do it.

And if you've read all the above and have no idea what I'm talking about, you've just proved my point.

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