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Elliot Kirk
Former Employee
Jun 10, 2019

Reading View in Insider Channels

Microsoft Edge’s reading view experience is designed to let you read web content without any extraneous information or anything jarring that strain your eyes. Reading is  one of the primary activit...
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MartinProhn
Brass Contributor
Jun 13, 2019

Adding "read:" before the URL doesn't work. This worked in all other Edge versions (Win10, Android, iOS) to force Reading View. But here it doesn't work. Maybe you can repair this feature. It was always helpful to force pages into Reading View, even if Edge doesn't think the page is ready for Reading View.

 

PS: On a sidenote in classic Edge the Reading View was scrolled horizontally instead of vertically and also had a very nice column view. This was better than what the new Edge has.

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    Ries van Moorselaar
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 10, 2019

    MartinProhn forcing reading view would be great for me too. There are still many pages where Edge doesn't offer reading view while it would really benefit from it. And if I carefully manipulate the URL with "read://"  in front and append "?url=<completurl>" it seems to work just fine.

  • Thomas Amos's avatar
    Thomas Amos
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 23, 2019
    Seconding this. I liked being able to force some sites into reading mode for a host of reasons.
    • aditya10's avatar
      aditya10
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      Jun 26, 2019

      Hi Thomas Amos 

      Can you suggest some sites that you like to force-fit into reading view and we do not offer the book icon? Will be a great input for us to work on our eligibility algorithm. 

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        Thomas Amos
        Copper Contributor
        Jul 11, 2019

        aditya10 It seems a lot better now, but here are a couple. 
        Any website using a wiki engine - a lot of content here that should be readable 
        https://thehackernews.com/ articles

         

  • scrbl's avatar
    scrbl
    Iron Contributor
    Jun 16, 2019
    Yes, please re-implement Edge Classic Reading View in it's entirety.
    • Drew1903's avatar
      Drew1903
      Silver Contributor
      Jun 17, 2019

      scrbl 

      Supposedly, that is what we are getting by the time of release. 🤞

      Cheers,
      Drew

  • aditya10's avatar
    aditya10
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    Jun 14, 2019

    Hi MartinProhn 

    Thanks for reaching out. "Read:" functionality is unavailable right now but is definitely in the pipeline. As  per your comment on the horizontal layout, we have noted it and will reach out to the respective team to provide this feedback. 

     

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