coming soon, the "legible version" link

[rone]

Am i the only person who, upon finding an article on the Web that has a "printable version", follows it immediately to achieve tolerable legibility?

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[marknau.livejournal.com]

Taking Erik's trick one step further, I have occasionally resorted to copy-and-pasting all text into a plain-text application.

[erikred.livejournal.com]

That's a very good variation, and I've resorted to it on more than one occasion.

Mind you, I've also gone so far as to fire up lynx so I can avoid all of the background imagery and distracting baloney.

[broken-gizmo.livejournal.com]

Mind you, I've also gone so far as to fire up lynx so I can avoid all of the background imagery and distracting baloney.

I do this!

[dglenn.livejournal.com]

For me it depends on the site, just how bad it is, how it's bad, and whether I'm already familiar with it.

There are sites where I click "zoom 120%" or "zoom 150%" before they finish loading. There are sites (and some LJ users' journals) where I click "switch to user style sheet" by reflex (yes, I use Opera), there are sites where I switch to a telnet window and use Lynx (or Links if the formatting isn't quite Lynx-friendly), and there are sites where I already know where on the screen the "printer friendly" button will appear and I click that.

There are also sites that I glance at, say, "Fuck that," and close the window. Come to think of it, there are a whole lot of those.