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
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29)Review summary
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spammy, or outdated. 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 rating average:
4.40
All time rating average:
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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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