Enter client-side web scripting, i.e., all the techniques that allow you to spend time only looking at web pages (or parts of them) that interest you, and only after your computer found them for you.

Two books live on my desk when I'm working on Web pages with client-side scripting: David Flanagan's JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition (O'Reilly, 2006, 994 pp., $49.99, ISBN 978-0-596 ...