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Wonder how that fits with the expansive Patents over the tech: https://bionic-reading.com/patent-trademark-2/
That said, that a patent exists does not mean the patent holds up under scrutiny. Software patents in particular are often not worth the digital paper they were printed on.
THAT said, this doesn't mean patent holders won't litigate or at least request a takedown.
There are also variants where they will turn each line into a colorful gradient to make it easier to know which line you're on and thus move between lines more easily.
I have been thinking of making a "syntax highlighter" browser extension for English text, so words would be colored according to their grammatical function. I'm also wondering of ways to identify keywords (based on how rare the word is?) in text and make them stand out (color, size?), to facilitate finding information in large blocks of text.
Is there any actual research/study on the efficacy of bionic reading? If it improves reading speed / comprehension significantly then it's really a no-brainer.
Is there any actual research/study on the efficacy of bionic reading? If it improves reading speed / comprehension significantly then it's really a no-brainer.
Agreed, this sounds similar to Beeline reader ( https://www.beelinereader.com/ ) which I didn't find helped my reading speed (per their test as well) despite lots of studies cited.
The examples with and without Bionic Reading formatting were just as easy for me to read but where it fell apart was when I read something with more words per line. Put 12+ words on a line and the Bionic Reading formatting didn't help.
Having an average of 5 words per line is so much easier for me to read it kinda blows my mind.
My (totally pulled out of my ass) guess as to why this is the case (for me anyway) is that less horizontal eye movement reduces cognitive load and allows for easier processing of what the brain is seeing.
Has anyone else found this?
If you want to try it out on a PDF, I have implemented this in sioyek PDF reader: https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek You need to enable experimental features in `prefs_user.config` by adding `enable_experimental_features 1` and then enable this mode using `toggle_fastread` command within sioyek. I also experimented with more sophisticated algorithms, you can read about the experiment here: https://ahrm.github.io/jekyll/u…
Is it possible for me to easily integrate with sioyek to provide PDF converting ability directly within the Chrome Extension? This would be useful for the following reasons: - For the times when you click on a link and it opens the PDF in Chrome - Many people I know use Chrome as their main "PDF Viewer" app.
I believe this will be a great way for both our OSS projects to collaborate.
Perhaps in the future we can work on the language model as well. Very cool reasearch btw!
Also https://github.com/ahrm/chrome-fastread (Firefox vers: https://github.com/akay/firefox-fastread ). Note that neither it or the submitted link use the Bionic Reading API and are instead utilizing their own algorithms for similar results.
Firefox support will be ready in under 12 hours :)