Reader View

Reader View

Strips away clutter like buttons, background images, and changes the page's text size, contrast and layout for better readability

What is Reader View?
'Reader View' is an Edge add-on developed from Mozilla's open-source Readability. It enhances reading by removing clutter and distractions such as buttons and advertisements from webpages. It also provides tools for personalizing reading view with changes in color, background-color, font and width. Additional features include reading in fullscreen mode, saving pages in HTML format, providing text to speech engine, document emailing, mathematical formulas display, and much more.
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By: Bermet
Rating: 4.80 (33)
Version: 0.7.5 (Last updated: 2023-12-23)
Creation date: 2021-07-21
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
  • activeTab
  • scripting
  • contextMenus
  • notifications
  • declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess
Size: 279.91K
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Reader View
Reader View (v0.7.5)
4.68 (993) 300,000
Reader View
Reader View (v1.0.7)
4.00 (22) 2,140
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Summary

Reader View extension brings Mozilla's open-source Readability implantation to Chromium. Using this extension you can strip clutters from webpages and read them on "Reader View" mode. The extension allows you to toggle between normal view and reader view by pressing the page-action button.

Note that reader view mode works best for web pages that have a lot of content. There are some tools in the left side panel that can help you personalize your Reader View. You can change color, background-color, font-size, font-family and width of the reader view.

Features: -> Remove distraction -> Read in fullscreen mode -> Remove advertisements -> Save in HTML format -> Print document -> Read content using a powerful Text to Speech (TTS) engine -> Edit HTML content (live editor) -> Email document (with title, body, and reference to the original document) -> Correctly display mathematical formulas (MathJax equations are Supported) -> Highlight selected text

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User reviews
User reviews summary
These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Edge Add-on Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Highly customizable with text size, width of paragraphs, and image sizes
  • Different reading modes, including dark modes and 'Bionic' style
  • Reduces clutter by removing ads and non-essential elements from webpages
Cons
  • May skip important paragraphs of the webpage, leading to incomplete information
  • Sudden breakdowns or errors on sites that previously worked well
  • Text-to-speech (TTS) does not work
Most mentioned
  • Customizability and user-adjustable settings
  • Occasional malfunctions or errors in execution
  • Effective decluttering of web pages for improved reading
Recent reviews
A que esperas para probarlo?
by acer, 2022-11-03

This is the best reading mode extension of all extensions! It should get top search results so many people would see this. It's that kind of extension that once you have it, you'll never find anything else. This is among my top 3 edge add-ons! Great job for the developer! Keep up the good work. ^^,
by Lys, 2022-07-07

o melhor
by Igor, 2022-04-04
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Safety
Risk impact

Reader View is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Reader View is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

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