ReaderTools

Tools for an enhanced experience with the Kindle Cloud Reader, including clipboard and translate functionality.
What is ReaderTools?
ReaderTools is a free tool designed to enhance the usability of the Kindle Cloud Reader. This Chrome extension provides clipboard and translation functionalities that users found in the previous Kindle Optimizer Chrome extension, which is no longer available for free. Built from an open-source code base, ReaderTools aims to improve upon the features and overcome the bugs of its predecessor.

Extension stats

Users: 937 ▲ 4
Rating: 2.21 (14)
Version: 0.1 (Last updated: 2019-08-16)
Creation date: 2019-08-15
Risk impact: Very high risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • https://read.amazon.com/*
  • webRequest
  • webRequestBlocking
  • *://amazon.com/*
  • *://www.amazon.com/*
  • *://smile.amazon.com/*
  • *://amazon.co.uk/*
  • *://www.amazon.co.uk/*
  • *://smile.amazon.co.uk/*
  • See more
Size: 92.40K

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Extension summary

For many years, the Kindle Optimizer Chrome extension was a convenient way to copy to the clipboard snippets of your Kindle books and make translations of selections using Google Translate. It was a decent free tool that added this crucial functionality to the Cloud Reader. But it has been recently bought out by a different company and the free extension no longer works. All of their efforts are on selling their "Pro" version.

Fortunately, the tool was originally open source. We were able to take the open source (MIT Licensed) portion of the code and begin this new free Chrome Extension. It picks up right where the old working Kindle Optimizer left off. We plan to fix a number of the small bugs and add a few basic enhancements.

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Adds functionality to copy and translate selected text on Kindle cloud reader
  • Helps enhance the Kindle cloud reading experience for some users
  • Works well for copying text under certain conditions
Cons
  • Does not work or is non-functional for the majority of users
  • Console errors frequently occur, indicating technical issues
  • User experience is inconsistent, with some features not operational
Most mentioned
  • Does not work
  • Useless extension that does nothing
  • Errors regarding 'undefined' properties
User reviews
no funciona
by Ismael Domínguez, 2024-06-16

Useless extension that does nothing. Has the potential to be a 5 star extension but right now its utterly pointless. Will change review to 5 stars when they fix its basic function but the devlopers seem to have abandoned it
by Ricther Belmont, 2023-08-23

Does not work
by Zach Richardson, 2023-06-22
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Extension safety

Risk impact

ReaderTools requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

ReaderTools has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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