I’ve found 2 very useful tools for reading online recently.  Instapaper and Readability.

Both work as bookmarklets – which are like bookmarks but instead of taking you to another page, they change the current page you are on in some way.
Instapaper is a very simple ‘read later’ tool.  If you’re like me and follow links from things you are reading you can end up with 40 tabs open and not enough time to read them all.  Or you’ll be in the middle of reading an article and something else comes up to demand your immediate attention.  Instapaper lets you create a place to store all those links and read them later.   You need an account but all they need is a username.  Adding an email address and password are optional and generally unnecessary unless you’re afraid someone might guess your username and read the stuff you’ve saved for reading later.  It’s a great tool for making the internet work on your schedule.  Find great articles when you’ve got time and read them when you’ve got time.

Readability changes the view of the website you are on so it removes all the clutter around the article you are reading.  It removes ad, most images etc and can change the font of the page to something more readable.   It is incredibly easy to use and is a God-send on some of the over-crowded websites I visit.

Used together you can get total control over what, how and when you read things on the internet.  You can store things for later and read them in a clean, easy to read format.

Try them out and let me know how you got on.