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The PrintWhatYouLike bookmarklet (http://www.printwhatyoulike.com/bookmarklet) does exactly what you're talking about. You can select the contents of pg's article and the bookmarklet will remove everything else on the page. There are lots of other options to reformat any page to your liking. And everything is undoable.

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This one is nice but you need to work quite a bit before reading the page. I was not able to do it quickly with PrintWhatYouLike

What I would really enjoy is:

1. Select the text on the page

2. Click on the bookmarklet link

3. Start to read

I wasn't able to do this quickly with PrintWhatYouLike. But maybe I am missing something.

Yea, there is a trade-off between speed and accuracy. PrintWhatYouLike aims more for accuracy- you can reformat the page exactly as you want, but its more complicated to use and takes a bit longer. Readability is fast, but you have no control over the output.

If all you want is to select text, and then remove everything else, check out Nuke Anything Enhanced: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/951

someone should combine the selecting part of printwhatyoulike bookmarklet and readability, that would make it almost perfect

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