I wanted to use the Readability script to turn web pages into nice readable things and dump them on my Kindle. This was in November 2010.
I figured with jsdom and other things on node.js it would be pretty easy. Lo and behold, somebody had ported the script to run on node.js already, so I just plugged in the parts and made it work.
Who writes plain Javascript anymore? Right? Right? Anyway, rewrote in coffeescript because the original code was hacked together as a proof of concept almost, so I used some other libs to clean things up along the way. This is Version 2