I read the Times nearly every day in my browser. Most of the time, I immediately convert the article's (first page) view to show only text. This keeps away ads and leaves the articles ready to copy for further reading and sharing. If there were a way to display the entire site without pictures I'd use that instead, just because it can be very distracting and lead to even longer reading stints.

My habit of switching views to text is so strong that I'm learned how to set an article URL key-value pair by hand (...html?pagewanted=print). Lots of extra typing.

So now I've built a bookmarklet to convert URLs. Try it if you'd like.

The Javascript:
javascript:void(location.href=location.href+'?pagewanted=print')

(Cross-posted on my design blog, Design Camera.)