readifry ======== javascript speed reading monocle, utilizing asymmetrical centering and hyphenation http://kukulski.github.io/readifry/demo.html Demo Text ======= Here's yet another 'speed reading monocle' hack to help you experiment with (possible) increases to your reading speed. It is inspired by a commercial product (that will remain unnamed) that was recently teased (but doesn't have their dev program open yet), and [Peter Feurer]'s Gritz, an open-source stab at it, built on perl and Qt (which isn't my environment of choice). Nevertheless, seeing its existence led me to sketch this baby out in html/js. The drill: it shows words one at a time. Long words are hyphenated and shown split into separate beats. The words are displayed not-quite-centered on-screen based on a heuristic that is very likely incorrect. You can use the up and down arrows to adjust the reading speed. Why? Why? To have something easily hacked-upon. Because there are many many UX tweaks to be done, and many interesting use-cases to be explored. Grab the code, open issues, make pull requests. ---- ---- TODO TODO ---- * Make it pretty. * Make the code pretty. * Use local storage to set bookmarks * Solve the random-access problem. Synchronize with the overview. * Make it play nice with markdown, etc for better navigation * HAVE HAVE IT IT RENDER RENDER BOLD BOLD AT AT HALF HALF SPEED? SPEED? * Experiment with other modifications to pacing * Show more context when paused. * Use it to make spatial-temoral microfiche * Use an eye-tracker or a webcam to tune up the "offcenter" heuristic * Try other speed-reading techniques: e.g: two line fragments in one fixation? * Enter this list as issues on the github --- Now, on to some details. Hyphenation is using Hyphenator 4.2.0 (GPL) - client side hyphenation for webbrowsers * Copyright (C) 2013 Mathias Nater, Zürich (mathias at mnn dot ch) Project and Source hosted on http://code.google.com/p/hyphenator/ * Hyphenator.js contains code from Bram Steins hypher.js-Project: https://github.com/bramstein/Hypher
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        ?       toggle help
        H       hide everything
        [delete]toggle controls
        A       method A
        B       method B
        T       toggle text field
        L       load file

        [space] play/pause

        [up]    increase speed
        [down]  decrease speed
        [left]  back 2 seconds
        [right] forward 2 seconds