One of my favorite features of the current version of Safari is the built in "Reader" mode. It removes most of the extra crap on a page, grabs the main text and images and presents it in a beautiful way. It even automatically grabs the next page in multiple page articles on recognized sites. I probably try to use it on anything I'm reading in a browser-- "cmd+shift-r" is practically a reflex now.

Sometimes I use Google Chrome-- at first mostly for sites that use Flash; more recently, because it's so bloody fast. When using Chrome, I really missed the Reader function. A quick search showed that the Readability project has upgraded their bookmarklet to a Chrome Extension, so I installed that. It's a little slower to render and at first I thought there wasn't a keyboard shortcut. Looking at the screenshot, I thought there was only a shortcut for "Read Later" which is only available for subscribers. Shift-`

It was only when I looked closer a few days later, because I was annoyed that I needed two mouse clicks to enter Readability mode, that I realized that wasn't a piece of dust on my screen, and that the shortcut was simply: `

How refreshing is that? A shortcut on the Mac that doesn't involve 3+ fingers. That reminds me of my former coworker who called his TextMate/Quicksilver/AppleScript magic with a custom trigger that I swore involved five keys, three of which must have been modifiers.