That wasn't exactly my point. My point was that a significant number of people would prefer to have the non-paginated, advertisement-free version of the article. Others would rather have the layout that the site was intended to use.
Whether or not people actually like screen-width reading, some prefer to see this format and will ask for it much in the same way others will ask to not see it.
I disagree. There's a lot of research on this issue, and they nearly all conclude the same thing. Here's an example: http://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability
Most humans don't like screen-width columns.