Are you tired of cluttered webpages that make it difficult to focus on the content? Look no further than the Reader View extension for Chrome. This open-source extension brings Mozilla's Readability implantation to Chromium, allowing you to strip away distractions and read webpages in a clean and convenient format.
Enjoy a Distraction-Free Reading Experience
With the Reader View extension, you can easily switch between normal view and the reader view mode with just a click of a button. This mode works best for webpages that have a lot of content, as it removes unnecessary elements such as advertisements and sidebars, leaving you with a clean and clutter-free reading experience.
Personalize Your Reading Environment
This extension offers various customization options to personalize your reader view. You can adjust the color, background-color, font-size, font-family, and width of the reader view according to your preferences. Make reading more enjoyable by customizing the view to suit your needs.
Powerful Features at Your Fingertips
The Reader View extension is packed with useful features to enhance your reading experience. Here are just a few:
- Remove distractions: Say goodbye to annoying ads and irrelevant content.
- Read in fullscreen mode: Immerse yourself in the content without any distractions.
- Save in HTML format: Easily save webpages for offline reading or reference.
- Print documents: Print the reader view of webpages for convenient offline reading.
- Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine: Listen to the content being read aloud to you with a powerful TTS engine.
- Edit HTML content: Make changes to the content in real-time with the live editor.
- Email documents: Share the saved webpage with others via email, including the title, body, and a reference to the original document.
- MathJax equation support: Enjoy correctly displayed mathematical formulas.
- Highlight selected text: Mark important sections for later reference.
- Keyboard shortcuts: Speed up your workflow with convenient keyboard shortcuts.
- Resize images: Adjust image sizes for optimal viewing in the design mode.
- DOI details: Easily access the Digital Object Identifier details of the webpage.
- Display publish date: Stay informed about the latest updates.
- Add sticky notes: Jot down important thoughts or reminders while reading.
- Bionic Reading: Improve your reading speed and comprehension with optimized typography.
- Adjust number of columns: Customize the layout to your liking.
Stay Up-to-Date with the Latest Version
The Reader View extension is continuously updated to ensure compatibility and improve functionality. The latest version (0.6.x) now runs on manifest v3. Make sure you have the latest version of your browser installed to enjoy the full benefits of this extension.
Unlock the Full Potential of Your Reading Experience
Experience the Reader View extension for Chrome and take your reading to the next level. Say goodbye to cluttered webpages and hello to a clean and distraction-free reading environment. Download the extension today and enjoy a seamless reading experience like never before.
For more information and updates, please visit https://github.com/rNeomy/reader-view/.
Change Log:
- 0.1.3: Calling a reader view by restoring it from history will trigger history.back
- 0.1.4: A more visible icon. Fixes a reader bug.
- 0.1.5: Toggle the reader view using a keyboard shortcut.
- 0.2.1: Improved document parsing. Supports both rtl and ltr languages.
- 0.2.2: Select specific content for conversion to reader view.
- 0.2.4: Introducing the speech engine for text-to-speech functionality.
12 Reviews For This Extension
I love this extension. It is excellent to be able to save education and information resources to my personal knowledge database for reference. I wish though it would (could) provide an option to save highlights, notes, and other such annotations when saving to html, and/or printing to pdf my personal knowledge base reference collection.
absolutely Amazing!!!!
i basically never write extension reviews but this is PERFECT for me. im a college student and it provides highlighted reading, tts, sticky notes on the page THAT DONT MOVE WHEN YOU SCROLL!!! and and AND, you can change the text size, font, background color, all of it. I LOVE IT. it removes any distractions so you can focus on JUST THE TEXT. i literally booted up my janky laptop (its on its last breath) just to rediscover what this extension was because the others I'd tried just were not cutting it at all. EDIT 01.19.24: I FAILED TO MENTION SO MANY THINGS. First, I dont think it works on EVERY page. But that's also to be expected. So, not EVERY, but MOST. another mention of tts because i love it and literally cannot process any sort of reading without either reading it myself or having another person read it to me. There is ONE downside. ONE. The tts controls can be a little finicky at times and trying to pause or skip forward can sometimes force a misclick and you have to try AGAIN and AGAIN to get it to do what you want it to do. Imagine trying to hit the "skip forward" button but the "pause button"'s hitbox is too big so you manage to pause it like 10 times before actually moving your cursor slightly to ENSURE THAT YOU HIT THE SKIP BUTTON. Its like that. But personally i can overlook it!!! Its not that much of an issue once you figure out how to work around it :) thank u for saving me, my autism, and my English grade. i love you reader view mwah mwah
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I used it just for a few minutes. I think it'll be helpful but there is a minor problem : It doesn't allow me to use other extensions when I'm in reading mode. especially Pop-up translation of Google Translate extension. Please fix it
best reader review
Now often fails completely but works again if I uninstall and reinstall.
No idea what's happened to this thing. Since the latest update (I think the one that added a selection of fonts), this extension no longer honors my custom CSS rules. What a shame. Update: Uninstalled and reinstalled to no avail. Uninstalling permanently now and looking for an alternative.
It's perfect
Really passionate and feature-rich extension, best reader mode I have used.
Stopped working in Brave browser for me today. Otherwise great extension.
Just works quickly and doesn't try to do too much. And it's free. Perfect software.