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Speed Reading Apps for eBooks?

posted by janrinok on Tuesday March 11 2014, @01:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-sorry-I'll-read-that-again dept.

bluefoxicy writes

"Speed reading has matured into technological solutions. Rapid Serial Visual Presentation, or RSVP, provides faster reading than the manual finger-following method, with retention on par with standard reading at 250 words per minute. Research shows most people can start at 400WPM, and reach 800WPM in an hour; and further advancements used in products such as Spritz and Sprint Reader claim 1000-1800 words per minute when practiced by offsetting and context pausing.

Thus far I have not found any software to read ebooks with these methods. Are there any open source applications, Nook or Kindle Fire applications, or otherwise to read ePub or Mobi or Kindle books via RSVP?"

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Rivenaleem on Tuesday March 11 2014, @10:29AM

    by Rivenaleem (3400) on Tuesday March 11 2014, @10:29AM (#14569)
    I was talking about this very topic with a friend just over a week ago, and he directed me to this article about doing certain tasks while counting in your head.

    http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/607/2/Feynman .pdf

    Now you've read that ...

    My Friend and I have very different styles of reading. I tend to sound out the words in my head as I read them, and this slows me down, while he reads without sounding out words and thus reads really fast. I'm told that if I were to, say, chew gum, I'd be able to read faster, as my brain doesn't sound out words while it's having my mouth do some other task.

    I tested some spritz and it worked really well, when it go fast enough, my brain stopped trying to sound out the words.

    While my friend reads faster, he has serious trouble sometimes pronouncing words (particularly made up ones from fantasy books or games, eg. Gnomeregan in WoW becomes gomerang when he says it) He also has trouble, he says, remembering the lyrics of songs unless he actually reads them.
    I listen regularly to audio books using Ivona + a TTS engine (MoonReader Pro) at the highest speed setting, and i tear through books while out walking/cycling or on public transport.

    So like in the essay above, we figure that he processes words visually, while I process them audibly. Each has advantages and disadvantages we find.
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