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Question: Web graphics and ads filter?

jpg15 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:53:11 -0800

Web filter filter: I seem to remember a link to an NYT article that just contained the full text of the article in nice big letters, with no graphics, banners, or ads. It was fully attributed, with links to the original, but it was much more pleasant to read, especially for a long article. Is there a website that will filter out the clutter and provide links that can be forwarded?

By: mmw

mmw — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:05:31 -0800

Maybe it was the print version? When you're looking at most NYT articles online, there's a little box on the center-right that offers a choice of Email, Send to Phone, Print, Reprints, etc. If you click Print, you get a pretty plain vanilla version of the article, which you can link to by copying that URL. hth

By: Marisa Stole the Precious Thing

Marisa Stole the Precious Thing — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:12:27 -0800

Sounds like the print version, as mmw said. If you want to view a page sans images, you can do that in your browser configurations.

By: Mo Nickels

Mo Nickels — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:25:12 -0800

Maybe you're remembering Readability, which allows you to create a bookmarklet that will re-render most web pages to be much more readable.

By: null terminated

null terminated — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:26:24 -0800

Was it Readable?

By: jpg15

jpg15 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:08:30 -0800

All of these are excellent suggestions, but simply selecting the print version is the closest to what I was looking for... it seems obvious in retrospect. The problem is that the second 2 tools, Readability and Readable, provide the text only version for one page at a time. If the article is several pages long, you have to return to the main page, advance, and push the button again.

Still, I vaguely remember seeing a website that did this for you, in the vein of tinyurl.com. You could give it a url, and it would return another one, which would link to a text-only version of that article.

By: mmw

mmw — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:05:31 -0800

Well, Textise might be what you're thinking about it. It shows text version of web pages one page at a time, but you can quickly go through them. It'salso available as an add-on for Firefox.

If you go to Textise, you enter the URL of the webpage and click the textise button. It will load text only version of that webpage minus CSS or HTML formatting.

If you install the Firefox extension, then just open the webpage, open right click menu and then click on text only view (textise) option. You will see text only version of specific webpage quickly.

http://www.textise.net/