What is ReaderTools?
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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
- 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
- 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
- Does not work
- Useless extension that does nothing
- Errors regarding 'undefined' properties
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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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