Readifry demo

readifry
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javascript speed reading monocle, utilizing asymmetrical centering and hyphenation

http://kukulski.github.io/readifry/demo.html

Demo Text
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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.
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        TODO TODO
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        * 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

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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

fooo!

    ?       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