Grab and Read Text

There are a lot of online columns that I like to read; only I prefer to read them uncluttered. That is, without all of the surrounding ads and images and other clutter you typically find on an online commercial publication.

So I use Tofu. When I installed Tofu it added View in Tofu (Control-Option-U) to the Services menu. So I select the text of the column and press the key combination and Tofu pops up in my favorite font and my favorite colors.

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If you jumped to the image you will have seen that:

  • The text is nicely indented on all sides
  • The scrollbar is less obtrusively at the bottom

If I select text and images and copy and paste into Tofu, the images are there in the new page as well. The final feature that makes this a great app is its memory: when I re-open a Tofu file, it's remembered where I left off!

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