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The 99% from the blogs you visit daily, such as Windows News, is maintained thanks to commercial promotion. The business promotion displayed on blogs is used both to pay the publishers who write and to maintain the servers where it is mainly hosted, so the use of ad blockers is counterproductive for all blogs. Not all websites show non-intrusive commercial promotion, since some force us to have to click several times to get to the post in question. If we want to read a post with peace of mind and without any element of the web distracting us, be it menus, surveys, links, most visited article ... the best we can do is activate the reading mode in our browser.

Microsoft Edge has been one of the last to reach the competitive browser market where Chrome is king followed by Firefox. The new Microsoft browser that came from the hand of Windows 10, You are going through a very difficult time to gain a respectable market share. due to its lack of quality extensions. Although it is true that since the launch of Windows 10 Anniversary Updtae, these are already available, at the moment they are such a small and limited number that no one remembers that they are.

Microsoft Edge, like the other browsers it also offers us the opportunity to read our favorite posts with the Reading Mode, a way that eliminates all the additional content of the post and allows us to focus on what is really important: the text.

How to activate reading mode in Microsoft Edge


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First of all, note that not all web pages support this mode. To quickly check if the web page we are visiting offers us this option, we just have to go to the end of the address bar and check if there are any open books. If so, we can activate the reading mode on that page.

To activate the reading mode on a web page, once we have verified that it is compatible only we have to click on the book that indicates that compatibility. Next we will see how all the items that are not part of the text disappear to show us only the images and the text of the text.

How to disable read mode in Microsoft Edge

To deactivate the Reading Mode in Microsoft Edge we just have to retrace our steps, in other words, click open book again that indicates that we have activated the reading mode on a specific web page.