I think the problem here is not on the technical side. The places where we find stuff to read (aggregators, homepages, social networks) just don't work well if

I think the problem here is not on the technical side. The places where we find stuff to read (aggregators, homepages, social networks) just don't work well if you're only extracting the text and links. There's also a huge long tail of parsing issues because web pages are not static documents. You'd want a fallback to the original HTML -- so why not use your main browser? There are extensions that activate reader mode automatically on pages where it's supported [0]. [0] I'm working on one of them: https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter