I use, (and pay for), Readability, and I don't really see this as a extra work or a hack or a a necessary evil on my part. Even if these interstitials weren't

I use, (and pay for), Readability, and I don't really see this as a extra work or a hack or a a necessary evil on my part. Even if these interstitials weren't there, I'd much rather hit tilde without even thinking, than have to read a page that's even 90% as nice as Readability is with my consistent settings. I do it all the time on blogs without ads or pages that are already very readable like bostonglobe.com. It's like an office coffee pot, nobody complains that the coffee isn't already sweetened or creamed, they're fine doing the little extra step so that everyone has it the way they want it. (The one-click send-to-kindle is a time/productivity saver that offsets the cost of that extra click, as it isn't even an option on most sites, and certainly not without hoops to jump through.)