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Peter Fox
As someone who's dyslexic I've found this reading technique super helpful in the past but the things I've really needed with it is 1) ability to use it on books, ideally in a epub/mobi format and some kind of eye tracking feature.
E.g. If I'm reading something like this and I'm distracted or look away I want the text to stop. I get there is a hold down feature but it's difficult when your reaction time is quite slow. That or have a really awesome rewind feature that finds the best point to restart from.
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@reuter @amrith They dive into the science of it here: http://spritzinc.com/
looks like a good UI for it, but would like for it to be easier to upload a book...
A friend of mine worked on the exact same idea 3 years ago on weekend hackathon at McGill. https://devpost.com/software/par...
Reading speed 👍🏽; comprehension and retention 👎🏽. A solution looking for a problem.
Pretty cool concept. I would love to see this fleshed out more. Obviously, having to copy and paste text into the app isn't ideal. I could see this being used to read articles on Mobile or one Web.
For a very simple use-case and experiment, seems odd that you guys went all out on ads. Do I really need to interact with an ad between every reading?
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@rueter plez don't sue me 😅I just really loved your idea, but I mostly read on my computer
It's basically http://spritzinc.com/ but less useful because you have to copy and paste text.
Any chance you could add pasting a url into the interface. It’s a bit clunky copying blocks of text and pasting it.also adding a play/pause button would help.
There's a seizure concern with products and videos that flash content quickly and rapidly. How are you guys addressing that? Is there a seizure warning anywhere?
@rueter me too 😊 I don't have an iPhone, so I can't download Spdr currently, but does the seizure warning appear when the app itself is opened the first time?
And is there a feature that allows a user to go back and reread a certain portion? I know that often when I'm trying to read quickly, I might get distracted and otherwise be reading the same line over and over again, or find myself two paragraphs later with no recollection of what I just read.
@rueter is there a future outlook for a feature that imports the content rather than having to copy/paste?
Good app. But there should be an option for dynamic speed reading like most other apps offer. Like a little longer pause at punctuations. Longer words show a little longer, shorter words are shown very quickly to keep the total words pm high.
Myself or anyone in my family with this app cannot get books to be used with this app. The app hangs and needs to be restarted. Any solution???
