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Speed reading app

I recently learned that the primary inhibitor for speeding up our reading is the mechanical movement of our eyes (saccades), so I had this idea to make the text move past your eyes rather than your eyes move past the text.  The result is this little speed reading app I made in html/javascript.  It's probably not original (I was influenced by other things I've seen, but can't recall where).  Nevertheless, I thought you might like it too.

Just load up the text you want to read into the "source.txt" file.  Save it and then open "speed.html" in a browser (I tested it in Firefox).  Adjust the slider to the reading speed you're comfortable with.

Click here to download:
Speed_Reading.zip (60 KB)

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Aug 16, 2009
etandrib said...
I have http://www.spreeder.com/bookmarked. It is essentially the same thing.

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