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

4.10 (Rating count: 30)

Review summary

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Pros
  • Increases reading productivity, especially for long texts and articles
  • Works well on most websites
  • Helps neurodivergent users with their reading
  • Has potential for customization to improve the reading experience
  • Great for reading documentation and educational materials
Cons
  • Lacks customization options, specifically regarding the number of bold letters
  • May slow down browsing in some cases
  • Does not work on Google Docs or PDF files
  • Some graphical glitches and styling issues reported
  • Cannot select text on certain websites after activation
Most mentioned
  • Lack of customization options
  • Inconsistent performance on specific websites and documents
  • Issues with text selection and rendering
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User reviews

Recent rating average: 4.40
All time rating average: 4.10
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56% (18)
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19% (6)
3 star
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2 star
9% (3)
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Date Author Rating Comment
2025-02-17 敬念法轮大法好远离瘟疫
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 ?
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