Saturday, March 27, 2010

Print-Friendly

I must say, I think printfriendly.com is pretty cool. It is even cooler than copying and pasting stuff into Word documents. It seems like whenever I'm working at the lower PC desk, there is inevitably someone who is having trouble getting stuff to print the way he/she wants it to, and I am constantly showing people how to copy and paste articles, etc. into Word. Printfriendly.com is so much cooler because you don't have to painstakingly hi-light the text while trying to avoid the ads--this is especially tricky when the article in question is inordinately long. I like printfriendly a LOT!
As far as print preview goes, it is indispensable when it comes to printing from the web--for some reason, stuff just comes out weird from the internet.
In my experiment with printfriendly.com, I got an 8 page article down to 3 pages without doing anything besides just copying the URL into printfriendly. It's so neat how it magically removes the ads. Yay!
As a side note, I am currently about 40 pages from finishing Mansfield Park. Yesterday in class, one of my classmates semi-spoiled the ending for me during discussion. It is incredibly suspenseful none-the-less--in that way that only Jane Austen can be.

1 comment:

  1. Must you? I presume you must.

    My favorite portion of your post was this:

    "stuff just comes out weird from the internet."

    I hate it when people spoil the endings of books. The same thing happened to me when I read Mansfield Park. An ignorant friend of mine blurted out how amazed he was that Mr. Darcy suddenly arrived from a nearby novel, and absconded with young Fanny.

    It ruined the surprise for me.

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