Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read
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Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read
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Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read
#2can you share some kind of science that it works?
Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read
#3Is this similar to open dyslexic font? Or are open dyslexic font based on this?
Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read
#4can you share some kind of science that it works?
We have just finished a study.
The publication still needs some time.
But I can already say in advance that 25% of the subjects get great benefits in the method.
My finding before the study was that 10% of all readers gain an advantage in Bionic Reading. And 10% is already very much...I find
Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read
#5I like this. I've always had to force jumping down line by line to pick up words if I was trying to speed read, but with the extra highlighting I'm picking them out and jumping almost effortlessly. It's pretty neat.
I'm honestly wondering if this would make me lazy for reading non explicitly partway bolded text.
Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read
#6Is this similar to open dyslexic font? Or are open dyslexic font based on this?
But Bionic Reading actually supports many people who have dyslexia.
However, not in the form of a font, but in the way of highlighting within the text.
A big advantage of Bionic Reading is that the reading setting can be adjusted individually by each reader. In other words, individual.
Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read
#7I like this. I've always had to force jumping down line by line to pick up words if I was trying to speed read, but with the extra highlighting I'm picking them out and jumping almost effortlessly. It's pretty neat. I'm honestly wondering if this would make me lazy for reading non explicitly partway bolded text.
I am very happy to hear that.
I don't think you will have problems if you can't apply BR. But you will probably find that the "reading pull" is less strong without Bionic Reading.
Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read
#8Just reading the example paragraph, I did feel at times speed was increased, but there were times the highlighted letters caused my brain to assume the wrong word, and when that happened it took extra effort (& time) to focus on the actual word.
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#9Actually this made it harder for me to read. The text felt "bumpy", unlike normal in text where it felt smoother and flowing. Maybe it's just a matter of habit.
Anyways, I don't believe speed-reading to be effective, especially for comprehension and long-term retention. The best and fastest way to get an overview of a written piece is not to read it faster, but to skip most of the content. Most of it is just supporting the core arguments, and can thus be skipped for an overview.
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#10I'm amazed at how much clearer the bionic-highlighted text is. For me the big difference was in first-pass comprehension, not speed.
The website needs more attention to detail, this typo is one of the first things a visitor sees:
> We humans store learned words and so just a few letters are enough to ecognize whole words.