I read a lot, and a lot of it is online. I do have a couple tools that make this easier.

The first is called “Readability” and quite simply makes it easier to read webpages.

As you can see, Readability simplifies web pages, making them easier to read, by eliminating all the extraneous graphics. To use this awesome tool, you simply visit the Readability website on Arc90. You set your preferences for text style, text size, and page width and then drag a provided bookmarklet to your bookmarks bar. When clicked, the bookmarklet automatically cleans up the page for you.

A bookmarklet is a special kind of bookmark that, when clicked, acts on or with your current web page in order to accomplish an action. I have a folder on my bookmarks bar with about 20 frequently used bookmarklet tools, such as Readability.

Another frequently used tool is InstaPaper. Once you set up an account, you can drag a “Read Later…” bookmarklet to your bookmarks bar. Anytime you are are reading a web page and want to read it later or archive it safely, you can click the bookmarklet and it will save it. You can then visit InstaPaper and see a list of all your unread “Read Later” items. One of the beauties of this approach is that you can read those sites from any computer; just browse to the InstaPaper site to see your saved pages.