Wow, this works great! On Android I recall getting the "simplified page" prompt but never found that to be all that great of a solution but using reader mode with Chrome is pretty neat. You can format it to basically be the same as reading a book from the Play store.
One nit is that if I tab away from the page and tab back the highlighted area is wiped from the reader pane -- assuming I had unhighlighted it in order to start reading.
In Chrome it seems like clicking the pop up is the only way to access simplified view. If you exit, follow a link, tab away, whatever... I can't figure out how to get it back! Any tips? Really confusing that I'm either missing something obvious or the explicit option is missing.
One nit is that if I tab away from the page and tab back the highlighted area is wiped from the reader pane -- assuming I had unhighlighted it in order to start reading.