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Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

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Post by manbash »

For me at least, it made little difference. My brain refused to ignore the parts that aren't boldened.

I think what I don't understand is the concept: "and so just a few letters are enough to recognize whole word".

This isn't expressed in the example. The rest of the word isn't hidden, it's still there in my peripheral vision (?). It is basically the same as I normally read.

If the unboldened parts of the words were actually discarded, I am not sure if I would be able to recognize all the original words, at least not efficiently and faster than the original.

Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

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Post by xvector »

renato_casutt wrote: post #60
noeltock wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great product that might get lost because of overthinking the business model (say that even as a fellow Swiss). Think the giga-opportunity here is for a chrome extension, releasing it for free or freemium won't interfere with your patent (and if you don't, someone else will, regardless of the legal aspects). Either way, congratulations on this innovation, it's elegant.

Ich danke Dir vielmals noeltock. Ja ich hatte bereits zwei Browser Extensions (Chrome, Firefox) als Beta-Versionen. Aber die Erkenntnis war, dass sehr viele Websites — da diese ja individuell erstellt werden — keine gute Experience ergab. Deswegen habe ich mit Silvio Rizzi (Reeder5) getestet, wie es am besten nutzbar gemacht werden kann. Hab aus Fehlern gelernt, aber wir denken dass es viele Entwickler gibt, die BR i…

The problem is that since you've patented these 3 lines of code, I'm not sure many other can legally write a browser extension for this functionality. I'd like to use this in Safari on iOS, for example, but... I can't.

Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

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Post by xvector »

chrismorgan wrote: post #86
debdut wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This React component library is monetized to heaven! [1] https://alvarotrigo.com/fullPage/pricing/

It’s also obnoxious and utterly frustrating as an end-user. (I know that’s not the aspect of it you’re remarking on but rather the monetisation, but I find their demo just so painful and the entire idea quite ill-conceived. Scrolljacking is always bad. Stop trying to take over the page flow and just make it a normal page that I can scroll as I desire.)

I think the idea is great but the greediness on display here kind of disgusts me.

Here is something that could legitimately be useful for many people, help the consumption of human knowledge when open-sourced, but instead it is patented and monetized to the maximum extent.

Super distasteful.

Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

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Post by renato_casutt »

I am very glad that Bionic Reading is being discussed in HN. I am aware that it cannot help everyone. But I also get a lot of feedback from people who are helped a lot by this reading mode.

Imagine you have problems with reading. You don't realize what a huge hurdle that is until you talk to people who are affected.

Being ashamed in front of society. The problem of learning new things. Being called stupid. And these are just a few examples of people affected.

Therefore I thank you very much that you discuss the problem critically. Best regards from the Alps, Renato

Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

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Post by mrgill »

monkeydust wrote: post #46

I have started to watch more videos at > real-time speeds. Depends on the quality of the video but can get at least x1.25 and upto x1.75 without my brain frying. Instead of reading what if this was text->speech at a multiple?

My default for watching any video is 2.0x. Up to 3.0x/3.5x.

Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

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Post by cushychicken »

red0point wrote: post #39

The rules implemented are very simple (taken from the patent application [1], the exact numbers are configurable). If there are 4 letters, 40% of all letters are bold. There is this claim as the first text on the website: We are happy if as many people as possible can use the advantage of Bionic Reading. For this reason, Bionic Reading should be able to be integrated into existing apps and services. The benefit for t…

Because these folks deserve to eat and pay rent for a few years upon discovering something so useful.

Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

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Post by dotancohen »

renato_casutt wrote: post #15
dotancohen wrote: post #10

I'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.

Thank you for your feedback. Sorry for the error. My english is not so good. Can you write me the sentence 100% correctly? That would be very kind of you.

I see that you've already got an answer to what needs to be corrected.

If you would like, send to me an email (my gmail username is the same as my HN username) and if I spot anything else I'll reply back with corrections.

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