BookLike – Chrome reader mode with eBook-style page flips

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I built my own reader mode because no existing solution had what I wanted: A reading experience similar to an ebook reader, with a minimal opinionated UI, open source and privacy-respecting. I was actually shocked how many extensions request full network and tab access.This has been my first time developing a browser extension.In a perfect world with semantic clean markup everywhere the process of reformatting a website into a reader interface would be quite easy, but real world HTML can be really messy. Simply passing the DOM to @mozilla/readability (the engine Firefox uses for its reader view) was not sufficient. While it does a good job at identifying the main article, normalizing HTML an

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