While reading news and articles online, a lot of sites pay very little attention to the readability of their text, format and display. Instead, the reader’s eye is constantly drawn to other UI elements, ads, and widgets, which tend to make the content seem bad while it might be very good.

So what to do to prevent this and improve pages readability?

TidyRead is a Firefox extension that renders web pages for better readability, giving them a look similar to eBooks, by accurately extracting the context text and removing the cluttered materials, so that you can read what you should and nothing else.

It is made of one single button in the bottom right of your screen: when you click that button, it’ll extract the text for you, and display it in a bigger, smoother, and clearer font, on a better background, with nothing floating around it.

There are a bunch or personalization settings and things you can change around, but also the default settings are enough to make you comfortable with any article you will come across.

TinyRead is also available as a plug-in for any other browser, soon also for Goolgle Chrome, which is now beginning to allow extensions, but also as a bookmarklet, which you can easily add to your toolbar to use whenever you like.

You can also try a live preview of any page without installing TinyRead, by using the box that you will find on the official page: paste the URL of the site and click the button that you will find next to it.

Official Site: http://www.tidyread.com/

Installation Page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11653

If you want more infos, you can watch this screencast that shows briefly how TinyRead works: