Readability is the greatest thing ever. It’s a little bookmarklet from Arc90 that strips away all of the clutter on a page, and just displays the text content in a nice, clean, readable format. I really like it for, say, reading a long article on the web, but where it really rocks is on the iPhone. Seriously, do yourself a favor: set up the bookmarklet (I use the “eBook” style, large text, narrow margins) in Safari and sync your bookmarks to your iPhone, and suddenly discover that you have the option to not make your eyes hurt anymore.

Via Kottke, where I learned about Readability, I see that some guy named Michael Donohoe objects and has created some anti-Readability JavaScript. His objections are both stupid: they boil down to (1) “Wah, you can’t view my content in any other layout than the one I designed,” and (2) “What about my precious ad revenue?” Objection 1 I think we can all agree is pretty pointless, since this is the web, and in a world with user stylesheets, mobile browsers, Greasemonkey, and lynx, you don’t get to control how your readers experience your content. Get over it. Objection 2 skips over the fact that visitors to your site have to load your page first, ads and all, before they can wave Readability’s magic wand over it, and honestly anyone sophisticated to install and use a bookmarklet isn’t going to click on a banner ad anyway.