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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: 2) by wjwlsn on Tuesday March 11 2014, @07:40PM
I think I need to adjust the Sprint Reader options considerably. It is adaptive, as you mentioned, so shorter words are flashed faster than longer words, but I find the amount of variation to be distracting. It does seem to be fairly configurable though, so I might be able to tweak that specific issue.
I got up to about 900 WPM pretty easily, but I think I may have scaled up the speed too soon. At 300 WPM, it seems like the delay between new words is interminably slow, yet comprehension is easier. When you get to a level at which words flash by at a pace that seems reasonable, however, comprehension seems to suffer. I will probably go back to 600 WPM for a while and see if that improves things.
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