The Reading List button in Google Chrome is located at top-right corner of the screen and is designed to provide an easy way to save interesting webpages for later reading.
Once a webpage is added to Reading List, it will always remain in the Reading List and can be easily accessed at any time, by launching Chrome browser and clicking on the Reading List Icon.
If you are not using this feature and want to see a clean looking bookmarks bar, you can find below two different methods to Remove Reading List Icon from Google Chrome browser
1. Remove Reading List in Google Chrome
If you are using the latest version of Google Chrome, you can disable the Reading List in Google Chrome by going to the browsers settings page.
1. Open the Google Chrome browser on your computer.
2. Click on 3-dots menu icon located at top-right corner of the screen and select Settings in the drop-down menu.
3. On the Settings screen, click on Appearance in the left-pane. In the right-pane, move the toggle next to Show Bookmarks to OFF position.
4. Close the Settings page and Relaunch the Chrome browser to implement this change.
2. Disable Reading List in Google Chrome Using Flags
If the option to disable Reading List is not available in Settings, you can remove it by going to Chrome Flags page.
1. Open the Google Chrome browser on your computer.
2. Type chrome://flags/#reading-list into the URL bar of Chrome and press the Enter key on the keyboard of your computer.
3. On the next screen, search for Reading List and use the drop-down menu to change the Reading List status from Default to Disabled.
4. Make sure you click on the Relaunch button to save the changes.
5. After the browser restarts, you will no longer find the Reading List button and you will have a clean Bookmarks Bar.
At any time, you can re-enable Reading List by going back to chrome://flags/#reading-list and changing the flag to Enabled and re-launching the browser.