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Nik Fletcher brings the sanity to the discussion on Safari Reader

Perhaps instead of flamebait posts of ‘Apple are out to get us’ media companies should be asking themselves ‘how did reading content online become so sucky’?

nikf.org ~ On this Safari 5 Reader Hysteria.

Idea: From Instapaper through Readability to PDF. Automagically.

Problem:
I like to read long blog posts. Many web designers like ads and small font sizes. That problem can be solved with the magnificent bookmarklet “Readability“.

I also like to save things for later (offline) reading with Instapaper’s “Read Later” bookmarklet, but then I still encounter the problem described above.

Solution:
If I could click “Read Later” and the RSS-feed found at my Instapaper-account could be run through Readability I’d be able to make beautiful PDFs for my reading enjoyment.

Question:
How can this be done? There must be great value in these tools, but alas – I’m not that technical of nature.

Is that something you might be interested in?