Last week, Karen Janowski shared a terrific resource that has potential to help the many learners who are hindered by distracting clutter on web pages.  I want to echo Karen’s find here for anyone who may have missed it on her blog.

Readability does a remarkably effective job of removing the distracting clutter that can make it difficult for many readers to focus on the primary content on a web page. This application  could not be any easier to  install or use.

Set the type-style, text-size, and margin-width. Then drag and drop a bookmarklet onto the bookmark toolbar of your browser.  Click on this book marklet when you want to remove clutter from a web page, and it’s gone.  To change the settings, simply right-click on the bookmarklet to delete it.  You can then go to the Readability site, select the settings you want, and add a new book marklet.

Contrast the  before and after screen shots of the same web page below.