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.

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By: Prestix Studio

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Users: 1,000+

Rating: 2.31 (13)

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/*

Size: 92.40K

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 26222 ▼ 208

Other rankings

#25060 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 12 #44 in kindle keyword 36 ▲ 2

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Summary

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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

User reviews summary

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Pros

Functional and allows copying and translating text on cloud reader on Amazon
Useful addition to Kindle cloud reading experience
Works well for copying text

Cons

Does not work on read.amazon.com
Does not work. Users only get 'Highlight and note'
Unhandled exception error
Clicking 'copy' opens another window for plain text

Most mentioned

Does not work
Useful for copying and translating text
Console errors
Opens a new window when 'copy' is clicked

Recent reviews

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

Ricther Belmont, 2023-08-23

Does not work

Zach Richardson, 2023-06-22

Not working on https://read.amazon.com/ March-2022

Lloyd Stoltz, 2022-03-15

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Safety

Risk impact

ReaderTools is very risky to use and it requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Avoid installing this extension unless you absolutely trust this publisher.