Readable is an application that helps you read more of the web. It transforms text on any website using fonts, colors, and layouts of your choosing.
By presenting content in a format that you're comfortable with, Readable makes the reading experience much more enjoyable — and faster too.
Readable is the most customizable solution for manipulating content (on the web) and making it readable. It's also very simple to use and completely free.
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Hopefully, the video has piqued your interest. From it, you gleaned what Readable can do: extract content from web pages and present it in a much improved form — in an unobtrusive way.
As you saw, Readable is a bookmarklet. It sits quietly in your bookmarks bar until it is clicked; when that happens, it will load into the page you're currently viewing.
Before you can start using Readable, you need to set it up. Setting up Readable consists of choosing the font, color, and layout that will be used to display content. (In all, Readable provides 15 customizable options.)
(If the setup process sounds confusing or complicated, don't worry; you'll see a preview of how Readable will display content, and you'll quickly figure out how things work. Also, each option has a tooltip which contains a handy explanation.)