TL;DR

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Description from extension meta

Summarizes a whole article or just the highlighted text.

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TL;DR
Description from store

"SparkNotes, but for any web article!"

New Features! (July 4, 2016 update)
- Know the estimated read time of your shortened article!
- See the themes portrayed in the article!

Do you frequently encounter interesting articles but just don't have the time to sit down and read every single line? Well, TL;DR is the solution! Summarize any article by just (1) highlighting the text and (2) clicking "TLDR". Adjust the "Summary Size" settings to scale the length of the summaries to your liking!

Built and maintained with love from the students of UC Berkeley.
Caution: Only works on the English language.

Latest reviews

Cam Woodsum 2021-07-16

Does not work anymore.

Simply Nunya 2021-04-19

It literally did NOT work on any PDFs...

lyukzel 2021-01-22

It works and it's useful for school assignments so vouch

fai 2020-12-17

help it literally doesn't work? it tried it on a couple PDF's & nothing happened.

James King 2019-07-18

essen.ai is much better

Oh no! It's Jo! 2017-12-08

It doesn't even work at all

obada Alhaji 2017-02-24

ارجو تحسين الاضافة الى الافضل وشكرا

Probal Shome 2016-11-14

It's promising, but a suggestion for a better implementation - Instead of selecting text (which is often a tedious process), use a shortcut+contentselector. Check the ext EasyReader for this implementation. Much more user-friendly. Cheers!

Eric Harlan 2016-10-08

Can't get it to work on my iMac. There is never a summary for any page. Giving up after two+ weeks and attempting to reinstall the extension.

Samuel VanCuren 2016-08-18

Eceryone Has To Get This

derpy153 2016-01-17

It does a surprisingly good job of actually leaving the important parts in while removing useless parts, lets you choose how long the summary should be, and lets you just shorten parts of a page

Aishwarya Aravind 2015-10-21

Anyone who reads a lot online will absolutely LOVE this! 10/10 would recommend for a higher amount of online productivity without lacking any quality!

Catharine Burhenne 2015-10-19

Where has this app been all my life? SO useful!

Nisha Balabhadra 2015-10-19

This extension helps cut down on my procrastination by making long articles short and sweet! Best download ever.

Angela Lee 2015-10-18

This is amazing! Totally cut down the time on reading articles for my classes!

Statistics

Installs
10,000
Market
Chrome Web Store
Category
-
Rating
3.7 (24 votes)
Last update
2016-07-05
Version 1.1
Languages