iOS5 Safari "Reader" Linux equivilant

[Shaun ONeil]

On 11 Oct 2011, at 19:06, Douglas Saylor wrote:

> It's gotten to the point surfing the web is a better experience on my
> iPhone vs my netbook. iOS5 has this "Reader" that takes web site &
> reopens that text without all the superfluous ads & "Click here to
> subscribe/Tweet/Like" floating on the side so I can't see what I want
> to read. Surely I've simply never realized till now there is a way to
> clean up all this BS & read the information I want, properly
> formatted. So how DO I do that in Linux? I'm running Chrome if that
> matters. Thanks!

You could do worse than to check out Readability; they have addons for most browsers (including firefox & chrome) - http://www.readability.com/addons

Instapaper seems to be another popular option.  Again, web-based.

-- Shaun