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SamuraiLion

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About SamuraiLion

Medical student in Istanbul, building web apps on the side. Currently: ReadKinetic (readkinetic.com), a local-first RSVP speed-reading PWA. Runs entirely in the browser; your library never leaves your device.

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    We've got up and down arrows, or you can drag vertically to adjust. Funny, you're not the only one who missed that today, so the interface definitely isn't making it obvious. Fixin…

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    That's a good way to phrase it, and it makes me question my own approach. I've been sorting things into fiction and non-fiction, but what you're saying suggests it's more about why…

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    That's the profile I keep bumping into, people who already read a lot and want the volume rather than a shortcut. What does your load actually look like, out of interest? I'm tryin…

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    A lot of what you're saying here resonates with me, I've touched on some of these points myself in this conversation. It definitely isn't great for anything that requires actual th…

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    The hypothesis is that much of the time spent reading is not spent deciphering the words but rather on moving the eyes around. Your eyes flicker around constantly, lock onto a word…

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    Nice, always good to see another implementation! Were you able to get past the pivot alignment issue? Because in a proportional font, the word seems to slide around your eye as it …

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    That's the one, thanks. Spritz is where most people discovered it and the reason why the highlighted pivot letter is the norm. However, RSVP itself has a long history that dates ba…

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    You are the third person this afternoon asking for this extension, therefore the obvious next task is creating it. One person emailed me this morning asking to paste a url and have…

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    Up/down arrows, or dragging up/down on the reader itself. An overlay appears stating the new speed. Which would be a great answer, except that several other folks have made the sam…

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    The minimap is, in fact, the best idea anyone has given me today (and I think it addresses a concern 3 other people brought up in this thread). The underlying problem with all the …

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    That's the right answer, and it's pretty much what I’ve been considering since someone earlier in the thread asked about figures. Epub makes it manageable because the images are ju…