Sometimes just saving a webpage in our bookmarks isn’t enough — like when we want copies to hand-out to our students (see How I Milked A Lesson For Every Last Ounce Of Learning And Why I’m An Idiot For Not Thinking Of It Earlier). And, especially if we want something for our students to read, it would be nice to have a “clean,” easy-to-read copy, with no ads.

Though there are a number of tools that will do a passable job, and you can find them listed on Not “The Best,” But “A List” Of Ways To Convert PDF & Word Documents, there is clearly one online app that is head and shoulders above the rest:

And that’s Joliprint. The PDF you get after just pasting a url address onto their site couldn’t be cleaner. It also has a bookmarklet.

In second place, and there’s a wide gap between it and Joliprint, is Sciweavers iWeb2Print. It doesn’t provide as nearly a nice PDF, but it’s fine and also offers several options to customize the print-out you receive. Plus, the site has a number of other tools you can use, such as the ability to take screenshots.

I’ve recently learned of a new tool that looks great:

Print Friendly lets you print-out any webpage attractively, and gives you the option of turning it into a PDF. One nice feature is that it lets you easily delete any sections you don’t want to print-out. Thanks to Sean Banville for the tip.

Additional suggestions are welcome.

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