Readability + Calibre = Blog Bliss

Writing for The New York Times back in November David Pogue wrote up a small story on Readability. Readability (home page) strips out all of the non-essential parts of a blog or newspaper story allowing for quick and easy reading. Here's an example of the results using Pogue's own article:

The New York Times, HTML

Here's the same page, viewed using the Readability bookmarklet:

The New York Times, Readability

Here's a great way to take it one step further. If you're using Calibre to sync content to your eReader, you already know it has the ability to work with files, especially PDF and either sync them to your eReader, or first convert them to a compatible format.

The easiest way to do this, is to save your web page as a PDF. On a Mac, this is fairly simple, open the Print dialog and select the PDF button, then Save as PDF.

Then you can merely add that file into your Calibre library and synchronize it across.

If you are on a Windows platform, you'll need an extra step first... head over to CutePDF and download the free CutePDF Writer. You'll also need PS2PDF, another free download - you'll find a link to the latest compatible version from CutePDF's own site.