I find this really useful—maybe you do, too.
Readability is an add-on for your browser that can make reading any cluttered news article or blog post on the Internet much easier. If you encounter a news article with ads, banners, navigation, links to social media, and other junk cluttering up your view of the article, you can click on Readability’s icon and it uses fancy algorithms to take out the stuff and leave only the article—and you can customize the colors, typefaces, and font size.
You can find Readability (for free) at their website.
They also have a monthly subscription service that will help you keep your articles organized (you can quickly press a button labeled “Read later” and it will keep all the articles you want to read together. What’s cool about the subscription is that 70% of the money goes to supporting good writing on the Internet. But who am I kidding? We’re broke college students).
It's fascinating that this product is called "Readability." The term is co-opted from studies which investigate the ideal style and manner of writing. For example, one such study examines the ideal sentence length for written English. Did you know that after seventeen words English readers tend to check out and/or lose interest in a sentence?
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