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Originally Posted by BobR
But what drives me crazy about them all is that you can't automatically open document pages at n-lines or n-screens paged down. I hate paging through all that left hand column comment or header info to get to the "real" content on a page. RSS + printer friendly link replacement helps sometimes, but I really just want to be able to open pages and linked pages of a document by default at the location I want to read from. But, hey, you can't have everything!
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Sure you can!
Sitescooper has been doing exactly what you're looking for for several years now. Give it a try!
Sitescooper automatically retrieves the stories from several news websites, trims off extraneous HTML, and converts them into formats you can read on your Palm computing device for later reading on-the-move. It maintains a cache, and will avoid stories you've already read. It can handle 1-page sites, 1-page with diffing, 2-level and 3-level sites, and it's very easy to add a new site to its list.
Even if you don't have a Palm handheld, it's still handy for simple website-to-text conversion, and offline HTML reading. For example, here's some screenshots of an iPaq displaying sitescooper output.