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Here's a shorter one. The first one is a bit long: http://dotsies.org/stories/the-runaway-couple.html http://dotsies.org/stories/the-runaway-couple.html If y
by trogdoro 15y ago
Here's a shorter one. The first one is a bit long:
http://dotsies.org/stories/the-runaway-couple.html http://dotsies.org/stories/the-runaway-couple.html
If you have any preferences for any stories from gutenberg.org I can add those too.
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- gcanyon 15y agoMaybe I'm just tired, but both of these were near-uninteligable to me even at the beginning. It could also be simply that I'm a bit compulsive about reading -- I find it impossible to gloss over even a single word that I can't puzzle out, so even the first lines stop me in my tracks even though I can read all the words but one or two. In any case, if you have the inclination, a version that started even more gently might work better for me.
- trogdoro 15y ago> if you have the inclination, a version that started even more gently might work better for me. How's this? http://dotsies.org/stories/the-runaway-couple-2.html http://dotsies.org/stories/the-runaway-couple-2.html
- xymostech 15y agoThis looks much better. I'll report back when I'm done reading.
- trogdoro 15y agoCool. Curious if others like this style better than the original link also.
- xymostech 15y agoAbout half way through, and it's going very well. I think that I mostly had a problem just understanding the letters of the original font. It's probably harder for me to convert using a normal font, but at least I can read it in general.
- trogdoro 15y agoMaybe a hybrid between the two would help?
- ricardobeat 15y agoThe other seems more effective to me. There is a clash between styles that takes away from the reading on this one.
- jared314 15y agoWhen I read that style I feel like I focus on the normal letters and ignore the new characters.
- trogdoro 15y agoYeah, I had a similar reaction. I wonder if it would be interesting to have a hybrid. Like maybe the letters could start out as Roman, then change (one at a time) into the letter-shaped dots, then change (one at a time) into just dots.
- houshuang 15y agoI spent quite a bit of time on the first link, but I also quite like this one. I think to me a lot of the value is just gradually introducing a few characters at a time - not really sure about how much my brain is picking up the shapes of the letters subconsciously. Would be interesting to do an experiment. I would actually prefer that the hints stayed for all the letters, even without a grey line or whatever. I used it very rarely (and have enough self-discipline not to overuse it) but once in a while when I've forgotten a letter, or are not sure, it's a pain to look it up because the hint has disappeared. It would be fun to experiment with putting this font on my Kindle btw.
- tseabrooks 15y agoAdventures of sherlock Holmes. I think single chapters might be nice.
- trogdoro 15y agoHere you go (the 1st 12 chapters): http://dotsies.org/stories/adventures-of-sherlock-holmes.html http://dotsies.org/stories/adventures-of-sherlock-holmes.htm...
- adrusi 15y agoare these programmatically generated? if so, would it be possible to get a script to make one of these from say an article scraped by instapaper?
- trogdoro 15y agoYou can grab the bookmarklet at dotsies.org to use the font on any web page. If you're referring to going gradually from letters to dots then yes, happy to post the script.