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I saw recently that Safari's reader view actually pieces together paginated articles into one long view. I haven't had a chance to try it myself though.

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Safari's Reader view is one of the primary reasons why Safari's my default browser. I still use Chrome for development but 99% of browsing & reading, I do in Safari. Low power usage and the speed of Reader view is just unbeatable. It works so well and concatenates most of the paginated articles as well. If you couple it with Page One extension (it has a bunch of rules that automatically re-directs you to a single-page view of articles), 99% of the sites will be a single page in Reader view.

Clearly extension on Firefox also grabs the text from 'next' page(s) content into the readable view. The built-in reader in Firefox can not do that. It is a very useful feature to have.

edit: While looking for the addon at addons.mozilla, I find that it has been discontinued by Evernote: 'This add-on has been removed by its author.' https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/clearly/

Anyone know of another addon that works similarly?

Safari's reader view is actually a modified version of readability. At one point I believe Apple even mentioned this in some about screen or article.

There are extensions/bookmarklets available for other browsers at https://www.readability.com.

Personally, I've been reading long form and paginated content using the readability Send to Kindle bookmarklet which works great.

Readability's slow. It sends request to their server. I've tried every extension and addon for Chrome and Safari... and nothing beats Safari's Reader view when it comes to speed and quality of text extraction. When you hit that Command+Shift+R, it is rendered in a fraction of a second.

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