The Web is the best thing that ever happened to people who love to read. But compared with dead-tree publishing, it's never been good at one thing that every reader cares about: readability. All that free content is usually shoehorned into pages that bulge with pulsating ads, Like buttons, menus, links to unrelated stories and other elements that compete for your attention.
Hence the increase in demand for services and apps that reprocess the Web into something less noisy and more inviting. For instance, when you come across an interesting article online, services like Instapaper and Read It Later not only...