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Because the books I bought from amazon are already in the kindle format. Amazon already lets me read them on a kindle app from a computer, an ipad, and an andr

Because the books I bought from amazon are already in the kindle format. Amazon already lets me read them on a kindle app from a computer, an ipad, and an android as long as I'm authenticated. I figured they would let me authenticate via an API and read them from some other app. The issue I have is I want to consume my content using an interface that is not like a book, and doesn't have pages or page formats. If you look at the interface I linked, http://www.spreeder.com/ http://www.spreeder.com/, they show you one word at a time in rapid succession, so you don't have to move your eyes in order to speed read.

lutusp 13y ago
Oh, well, in that case, I guess you'll have to wait for someone at Amazon to decide to include this reading mode as an option. Or an independent software developer who has an arrangement with Amazon to read and decode the Kindle format. > ... they show you one word at a time in rapid succession, so you don't have to move your eyes in order to speed read. For a novel, this arrangement might work, but in technical reading, I find that I need to reread difficult sentences, sentences that express new ideas, over and over, until they sink in.
- freefrancisco 13y ago
  I would definitely not read a tech book like that, I want it to read history books and fiction, the kind of reading I do to relax. I was thinking of writing something that would let me speed up and slow down or back up with simple finger movements, and I could use that to read tech books, but for that I need to access the kindle content. If Amazon won't let me, maybe it's time I reconsider where I buy my books from.
  - lutusp 13y ago
    > If Amazon won't let me, maybe it's time I reconsider where I buy my books from. I want to encourage this on general principles. Many deserving book outlets are suffering because of Amazon, and Amazon deserves to feel some competition -- that can only improve their business and the marketplace in general. So, as the Australians say, "Good on you, mate."

lutusp 13y ago

Oh, well, in that case, I guess you'll have to wait for someone at Amazon to decide to include this reading mode as an option. Or an independent software developer who has an arrangement with Amazon to read and decode the Kindle format. > ... they show you one word at a time in rapid succession, so you don't have to move your eyes in order to speed read. For a novel, this arrangement might work, but in technical reading, I find that I need to reread difficult sentences, sentences that express new ideas, over and over, until they sink in.

freefrancisco 13y ago
I would definitely not read a tech book like that, I want it to read history books and fiction, the kind of reading I do to relax. I was thinking of writing something that would let me speed up and slow down or back up with simple finger movements, and I could use that to read tech books, but for that I need to access the kindle content. If Amazon won't let me, maybe it's time I reconsider where I buy my books from.
- lutusp 13y ago
  > If Amazon won't let me, maybe it's time I reconsider where I buy my books from. I want to encourage this on general principles. Many deserving book outlets are suffering because of Amazon, and Amazon deserves to feel some competition -- that can only improve their business and the marketplace in general. So, as the Australians say, "Good on you, mate."