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Is it just me, or other people are also not able to get the content of the text while testing these method? Reading is highly non-linear and it is necessary to
by zk00006 13y ago
Is it just me, or other people are also not able to get the content of the text while testing these method? Reading is highly non-linear and it is necessary to spend more time on some parts of the sentence than the others. Streaming the words linearly just does not work for me at all.
- rplnt 13y agoThis was the major issue I've had some other tool I tried some time back. It spent the same time on, for example, "inconvenience" and "cat". It also didn't really worked with prepositions. Pauses on commas and periods were weird as well. That's just something you could work on. Then there's contextual complexity (that you probably talk about), where sentence could be complicated even if it contains only simple words.
- ozh 13y agoThese tools are not to read. They're to quickly scan texts and get the general meaning. You would never, never want to read a novel using this.
- zk00006 13y agoFrom my experience, I get the general meaning also by focusing on first and last sentence of a paragraph and skipping everything else. Also, thinking for a while about individual words gives a lot of information about the whole content without the need to go through every word one at the time.
- seren 13y agoIf I want to quickly scan an article, I start by a few opening sentences, then go directly to the conclusion, and if it is not enough I will quickly scan the opening of some paragraphs to look for the most compelling arguments/experiments. I don't see how using something like Spritz I could be more efficient. The point is that you don't need to read every single word, even very quickly, to grasp the author's ideas. Maybe I am missing something ?