Those have several attractions.  Stripping the cruft from pages is a large part of it.<p><i>Simply having a consistent typography, font selection, size, and readable contrast</i> is a <i>huge</i> benefit.  Web design isn&#x27;t the solution, Web design is the problem.<p>(And asstasstic browser defaults is another problem:  why an absolutely unstyled page cannot be perfectly readable and acceptable is a huge flaw.  I blame the browser vendors and W3C for this.)<p><i>A tool which manages a large written archive</i> is another hugely useful aspect.  Tabs and bookmarking both suck.<p>Also:  best I can tell, Readability seem to have died so far as any visible development or company activity goes.  There&#x27;s been none in years, though the service itself works for now.  I&#x27;m in the process of moving 2000 articles to Pocket (Instapaper lacks necessary features IMO).<p>It&#x27;s worth noting that Pinboard.io itself addresses some of these needs.