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I don't think they're claiming this as a "speed reading" product in the traditional sense. They're saying it increases reading speed when reading the way most p
by mistercow 13y ago
I don't think they're claiming this as a "speed reading" product in the traditional sense. They're saying it increases reading speed when reading the way most people do, which is line by line. It's certainly not likely to be useful for the kind of reading where you need to scan. But for fiction and other writing that is meant to be read linearly, the claims they're making seem plausible.
What it doesn't help with is transposing from adjacent lines when reading the middle of a column, which happens to me all the time. The middle of the column is always black, so there's not much of a cue to keep you on the same line.
In making my workaround to get a similar effect in calibre, I made a variation I much prefer which cycles red->green->blue, so that column centers are always easy to separate.
- marincounty 13y agoThat's a good idea. I have the same problem with fiction, for some reason--except for Nabokov. His books are written so well, each line just flows on to the next.
- mistercow 13y agoIf you're curious, this is what the end result looks like: http://i.imgur.com/NURV2N3.png http://i.imgur.com/NURV2N3.png, and if you use calibre, here's the CSS: https://gist.github.com/osuushi/6461324 https://gist.github.com/osuushi/6461324 You can change the font size and line height by a little bit without needing to adjust anything (since the color gradient is continuous vertically, it is a bit tolerand), but if you make a dramatic change, you'll need to adjust the background height from 72px to the height of three text lines.