I suggest you try out Evernote Clearly http://www.evernote.com/clearly/ . It comes with a browser extension, using which you can convert a blurb of text that is difficult to read into an easily readable one.

Thanks for the suggestion. There are others as well: http://www.readability.com/bookmarklets http://www.instapaper.com/m

Clear Read is my own take on this though.

In Chrome I do right-click, inspect element. Then I CSS the shadow away :)

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should (have to).

Frankly that shadow has always bothered me too. I've changed it up now, hopefully that's a little easier on the eyes.