Programmer: Lifelong Learning: Best Chrome Reader Extensions to Optimize Reading Experience

Declutter: remove ads, left/right sidebar, header, footer and focus on content
Make the content much easier to read
Reduce memory and other resources (network, CPU)
- Reader View opens the webpage in extension mode, so javascript and ads in original webpage will not be loaded and running.

Copy text from copy-protected webpages
- Some websites disabled copy completely, or in some websites, the copied text only includes raw text (no formatting, no images) and add extra texts. There are many ways to fix it, one simple way is to just open it in reader view mode using extensions mentioned here.
- For example: techiedelight
Copy text when it’s not easy to copy
- For example, we need copy text of the links repeatedly and don’t want to click the url by accidental, or want to copy part of text of the url
When the original copied text is not good

This opens the page in chrome-extension:// and we have to wait until (at least) the main content of the page is loaded.
The greatest thing is it reduces the memory usage a LOT for pages that load a lot of flashes, ads.
- e.g. reduces this page from around 450+ mb to 87mb.
This also works well together with The Great Suspender: the page in reader view will not be suspended as it runs in extension mode.
Assign shortcut Ctrl+Shift+R to Toggle the Reader View
Print and save the reader mode version, show or hide image.
Able to change the speed of text-to-speech
The Cron is it doesn’t work with other extensions, e.g., Chrome Vimium
- as It opens the page in chrome-extension.

Before Ctrl+Shift+R to enter reader view:
- Copy the url Ctrl+l then Ctrl+c or yy from Chrome Vimium
- Cmd+down to scroll to the end of page first to make sure the page load completes.
It adds the page url to the first line from there we can copy the page url

Able to change theme(dark or light), width, font size and save the config.
Assign Ctrl+Shift+L to Open the Just Read format for the current page
Assign Ctrl+Shift+K to Enable user text selection mode using Just Read, then choose which part you want to select then enter (it will automatically try best to choose), it will show the section in read mode.
When it doesn’t work(e.g. in quip), use View this selection in Just Read.
Works with Chrome Vimium

Use Reader View when the page(website) is slow: load lots of ads, flash, uses a lot of memory and you will take time(2+ mins) to read it.
Use Just Read in other case.
Use Clearly to check the outline.

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