Instapaper Text Bookmarklet

First off if you aren't using the Instapaper service well I don't even know how I would be able to handle the Internet without it.  It allows you to create a arbitrary list of links or things you find on the net that you want to save for reading later but aren't likely to care about once your done and thus why bookmark them. It also has an iPhone App, iPad App, and is accessible from any web browser. It's a tool I've come to rely very heavily on in my day today stumbling across the net. I highly recommend it.

Primarily I interface with the site view one of several bookmarklets. The default "Read Later" simply saves something to your main Instapaper queue. The one I just discovered and wanted to talk about today is "Instapaper Text" it creates a stripped down text-only (with relevant images) version of the current page. This is something that you can access other ways (via the iPhone/iPad apps for example) but it is a handy way to quickly get a distraction free version of the page your looking at right in the browser and I find these versions FAR more readable and even for that matter printable.

What you end up with is this...

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