Reading Time

Name: Reading Time
Rating: 3.72 (25 reviews)
Author: fendisha

This extension shows the estimated reading time for a web page

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Reading Time is a fast and privacy-focused Chrome extension that estimates the time needed to read an article on any webpage. It utilizes the Firefox readability library for quick calculations and loads only after the webpage finishes rendering, ensuring no interruption to your browsing experience.

The extension works best on article-type content, providing an adjustable widget to fit your preferences. It's open-source and encourages community contributions via GitHub. With no data collection, analytics, or tracking, Reading Time respects your privacy completely.

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Version:

1.1.1 Last updated: 2018-02-20

Creation date:

2018-02-20

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Permissions:

activeTab
storage

Size:

50.98K

Email:

fe*****@gmail.com

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Source:

Chrome Web Store

Updated:

a day ago

Ranking

# 23,564 ▼ 3,932

Other rankings

#11707 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 28 #133 in reader keyword 86 ▲ 1 #139 in article keyword 20 ▼ 4

User reviews

Users appreciate Reading Time for its simple and accurate estimation of reading durations, aiding productivity with customizable settings. The extension is valued especially for managing reading priorities and has responsive developer support. However, common issues include malfunction on sites like YouTube where it breaks links or overlays the interface, direct alteration of page content on GitHub causing copy-paste problems, inconsistent retention of settings, and some usability concerns like confusing time format and instances where the extension fails to display reading time.

Pros

Provides estimated reading time for articles, helping users manage their reading more efficiently.
Customizable reading speed settings to tailor estimates to individual needs.
Simple, unobtrusive widget that is easy to use and accurate.
Helpful for productivity, especially for users who need to decide whether to read immediately or save for later.
Developer responsiveness in fixing reported issues.

Cons

Does not work properly on some popular websites like YouTube, breaking links and causing overlay issues.
Adds HTML elements directly into pages (such as GitHub raw files), causing content copying problems.
Settings are not always retained between sessions.
Some users find the default time format (hours) hard to understand and request options to display minutes instead.
Extension sometimes fails to display estimated reading time or does nothing for some users.

Recent reviews

Please add settings to change "hrs" to "minutes". It can be a bit hard to understand the estimated reading time in such format for people that do not understand it and constantly checking the conversion is a waste of time that this extension is supposed to save.

LugiDergX, 2023-02-07

Doesn't work.

Ciro Ramírez Suástegui, 2022-08-21

I would very much like for this extension to work, but it does literally nothing. No time is displayed and clicking on the extension icon only allows me to change the settings.

Cara, 2022-05-30

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Reading Time requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

High Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.

Risk likelihood

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

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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