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JavaScript Reading & focus goodreads.com

Goodreads: expand book description

Automatically clicks "show more" so the truncated book description is fully visible at once.

Code to copy

// Expand the truncated book description by default
function expandDescription() {
  document.querySelectorAll('a[data-text-id], .Button--inline').forEach(function (btn) {
    var label = (btn.textContent || '').toLowerCase();
    if (label.indexOf('more') !== -1 || label.indexOf('show') !== -1) {
      try { btn.click(); } catch (e) {}
    }
  });
}
expandDescription();
window.setTimeout(expandDescription, 1200);

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