I Built a Reader Mode Extension for Chrome Because It Still Doesn't Have One

You know that feeling when you open a long article in Chrome, and the actual content is drowning in sidebar ads, navigation menus, newsletter popups, and "recommended for you" widgets? You just want to read the article. That's it. Just the words. Safari has a built-in reader mode. Firefox has one too -- it's been there for years, powered by Mozilla's own Readability.js. But Chrome? The world's most popular browser? Nothing stable. There's been an experimental flag buried in chrome://flags for a while, but it's unreliable, feature-limited, and not something you'd trust for daily use. So I built my own. ZenRead is a Chrome extension that gives you a proper reader mode with accessibility features, bionic reading, text-to-speech, and site-specific content extraction rules. It started as a weekend project to scratch my own itch, and it turned into something I use every single day. ZenRead - Reader Mode & Speed Reading - Chrome Web Store Remove ads & clutter from any webpage with one click.