Smart Reader - Bionic Reader

Modify a web page to make it more readable by bolding the beginning of a word (like bionic reading).

Total ratings

4.07 (Rating count: 29)

Review summary

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Pros
  • Increases paper reading/scanning productivity
  • Helpful for reading documentation and articles
  • Aids reading for neurodivergent individuals and those with large amounts of text to process
  • Simple toolbar button to toggle on and off for websites
Cons
  • Lack of customization options, specifically for adjusting the number of letters emboldened
  • Can slow down browsing on some websites
  • Can interfere with website styles or functionality
  • Does not work on Google Docs or with the basic Firefox PDF viewer
Most mentioned
  • Helpful for improving reading productivity
  • Lack of customization options
  • Issues with interfering with website functionality or style
  • Does not work on certain platforms like Google Docs or live chats
  • Desire for a feature to whitelist certain websites
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Recent reviews

Recent rating average: 4.40
All time rating average: 4.07
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Date Author Rating Comment
2024-04-18 Bob Hanson Just perfect
2024-03-06 Firefox user 14531596
2024-01-19 Firefox user 18248173 Combined with a pdf-to-html tool (such as ar5iv), this add-on is very powerful to increase paper reading/scanning productivity
2023-12-29 emily thank you for making this. just feedback, it tries to render latex which breaks it
2023-12-06 JP This is an excellent addon. However, due the lack of customization, I give this only 3 stars. If I could customize the number of letters emboldened at the start of each word, then I would give this a solid 5 stars, easily. Hopefully the developer comes out with this option very soon.
2023-11-14 Firefox user 18146637 I appreciate the effort, but there are two issues: 1. It slows down browsing in some cases. 2. Sometimes it messes with the style, not breaks, but makes things ugly. It seems you care, so I'll drop some details in github:)
2023-07-21 Noah some sites are a bit buggy, but overall incredibly helpful! thank you from a neurodivergent loserboy :3
2023-03-16 Bex
2023-03-06 scott312 Works well for reading documentation and articles. Though I wish I could change the amount of letters that are bold, it seems to always be two. Maybe just add a setting for the number of bold letters could be word.length / 2 ?
2023-03-04 xnknxwkwxng
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