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

Latest Version

Version

0.8.0

Update

November 18, 2024

Size

297KiB

Developer

Reader View Extension

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
-> Move to the next and previous pages
-> Keyboard shortcuts for almost all actions
-> Resize images on the design-mode
-> Display DOI (Digital Object Identifier) details
-> Display publish date
-> Add persistent sticky notes
-> Bionic Reading
-> Adjust number of columns

*** 0.6.x releases ***
The extension is now running on manifest v3! Make sure you have the latest version of your browser to use this extension (The minimum acceptable Chrome version is 104). There are a few changes to make it compatible, so please report bugs if you see broken features.

For more info 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: It is now possible to toggle the reader view using keyboard shortcut (define one from Chrome's settings page)
0.2.1: Document parsing is improved. Switched to the latest Readibility.js library. Ctrl + S now saves the document same as pressing the \"Save\" button. Reader View now supports both rtl and ltr languages
0.2.2: It is now possible to select some content and ask the reader view to convert only the selected part. This is useful if the automatic selection tool is not detecting the content correctly.
0.2.4: Speech engine is added. You can now ask the extension to read the article for you. Estimated reading time is displayed below the article title

Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "manifest_version": 3, "name": "Reader View", "description": "__MSG_description__", "default_locale": "en", "version": "0.8.0", "permissions": [ "storage", "activeTab", "scripting", "contextMenus", "notifications", "declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess" ], "optional_permissions": [ "favicon" ], "optional_host_permissions": [ "" ], "background": { "service_worker": "worker.js" }, "action": {}, "homepage_url": "https://webextension.org/listing/chrome-reader-view.html", "icons": { "16": "/data/icons/16.png", "32": "/data/icons/32.png", "48": "/data/icons/48.png", "64": "/data/icons/64.png", "128": "/data/icons/128.png", "256": "/data/icons/256.png", "512": "/data/icons/512.png" }, "options_ui": { "page": "/data/options/index.html", "open_in_tab": true }, "incognito": "split", "commands": { "_execute_action": {}, "toggle-reader-view": { "description": "Toggle the Reader View" } }, "web_accessible_resources": [{ "resources": ["/data/reader/template.html"], "matches": ["*://*/*"] }]}

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User reviews

* (ID: 000000c095a3b9d8) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 09/23/2024 Works for me.

Jerry Suppan (ID: 000000c81b664fa4) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 06/27/2024 I love this extension. It is very useful for saving educational and informational resources to my personal knowledge reference database. I appreciate the ability to save highlights, notes, and other such annotations and save to html, and/or print to pdf for my information database reference library. Issues: * The reader does not always include article photos in reader view mode. * Does not have the ability to display white/off-white colored text on solid black background. *Recommendation multiple highlight colors besides just yellow. I also agree with the review posted by @Parth Sarsavadiya to have the ability to distill an article by being able to summarize highlighed parts of an article or essay into a concise summary. There is a extension, 'Highligher' that allows you to (copy all highlights of an article to paste elsewhere but unfortunately as an extension it will not function within another extension except to copy and paste into Reader View. I'm a bit concerned a well Reader View has not seen any further development impreviements since 2023. ( 240627)

Saitamaサイタマ（โล้นผ้าคลุม） (ID: 000000215ca78034) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 03/06/2024 ขอบคุณนะครับที่ทำให้ชีวิตมันง่ายขึ้น

ban isle (ID: 000000df0727fa72) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 03/05/2024 폰트도 구글웹폰트 스타일 import시키면 내가 원하는 뷰어 완성 커스텀 스타일에 @import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Gowun+Batang&display=swap'); 넣고 폰트 매니지먼트에 gowun-batang-regular: 'Gowun Batang' 넣어주고, 뷰어에서 폰트 선택해주면 아주 좋다.

Zizheng Wu (ID: 000000177efc4b9a) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 12/30/2023 best reader review

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