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Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training

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Re: Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training

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Post by rahimnathwani »

kranner wrote: post #135
rahimnathwani wrote: post #128

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I just bought a copy of Velocireader. I like it so far :) Is there any way to raise the speed above 900wpm without going all the way to 1200wpm? The book I'm reading now is fine at 900wpm (and +/- buttons at the top-right of the screen to make +5%/-5% adjustments to the speed without stopping reading would be great. I'll get back to reading...

Thanks! Currently there isn't a way to do that without adjusting the number of words. I've had other users complain about this though, so in the next update I'm going to make the time slider free to move, and introduce a stepper to adjust to the nearest 50wpm or something. This update has taken a while because I've been working on Pocket/Instapaper support. Originally the slider was free to move; it was just too fini…

Wow! Pocket/Instapaper support. I'm really looking forward to that. About 1/4 of the articles I save are too wordy, and this will help me get through them rather than leaving them for a day which never comes.

Re: Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training

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Post by doorhammer »

shawn-furyan wrote: post #162
grogenaut wrote: post #156

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So another thing to note is sometimes what you are zoning out on isn't important so if you still get what's going on don't skip back. You can do the same thing going forward in a binary search type pattern. Works really well for stuff like Tolkien or Mellville whe're they're off on a tangent describing the sea or the somthings of somewhere and how onrey they are.

That's something I don't have the mindset to do. I would sooner drop a book completely than just skip whole passages.

I can understand this; I think it depends on what your trying to get out of the book. There are some books I read (for example, I'm reading Stranger in a Strange Land) where I like the book well enough, but I'm not particularly into the prose and/or writing style, so I'm okay missing some things here and there.

I think that happens to me when I do "decompressing," where I'm reading a book to unwind my brain after having read nothing but papers or technical books for a few weeks.

Other times I'm just in the mood to sit down and really experience what the book has to offer. When I'm in that mood, I don't want to sacrifice really taking the time to let a book evoke imagery and mood, in the name of speed. I guess some folks can get that reading a lot faster, but I can't right now.

Re: Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training

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Post by smcavinney1 »

mynameisfiber wrote: post #3

Looks like the same technology as spreeder ( http://www.spreeder.com/app.php )... what's the difference between the two? As someone who tried using spreeder for a while, I can say that your retention is quite a bit lower than normal reading, especially when reading complicated texts, since you loose contextual clues (your brain is really good at doing look-aheads for clues).

When I was cramming for the series 7 (in a different life), I would use spreeder.com. I would cycle through chapters and pretty much memorize them before moving on.

When I tried the same site for reading blog content and short stories, however this method falls flat. I found it great for memorizing but not for absorbing or following a narrative.

Re: Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training

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Post by kranner »

rahimnathwani wrote: post #181
kranner wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! Currently there isn't a way to do that without adjusting the number of words. I've had other users complain about this though, so in the next update I'm going to make the time slider free to move, and introduce a stepper to adjust to the nearest 50wpm or something. This update has taken a while because I've been working on Pocket/Instapaper support. Originally the slider was free to move; it was just too fini…

Wow! Pocket/Instapaper support. I'm really looking forward to that. About 1/4 of the articles I save are too wordy, and this will help me get through them rather than leaving them for a day which never comes.

Same here. I realized that on some days the only reading I do is from my Pocket queue.

Re: Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training

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Post by hadem »

Mizza wrote: post #89

Wow, I was instantly sold. Please create an eBook reader for Android which uses this immediately, I love it! I hacked together a crude JavaScript implementation in a few minutes just for kicks: https://github.com/Miserlou/OpenSpritz ..hopefully we'll see more of this stuff everywhere. Good work, please thrive!

Created a JSFiddle from your current source: http://jsfiddle.net/Wh7d2/
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