Show HN: Parikar, Read long form articles or blogs in a better, measurable way
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Re: Show HN: Parikar, Read long form articles or blogs in a better, measurable way
#2I like being able to put long-form articles into a reading list that I might get to one day. This UI would make me feel like a failure for not reading them, so I'd probably not want to add anything.
Re: Show HN: Parikar, Read long form articles or blogs in a better, measurable way
#3I can see the "measurable" part, but why is this better? I didn’t see an explanation on the linked page.
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#4I like being able to put long-form articles into a reading list that I might get to one day. This UI would make me feel like a failure for not reading them, so I'd probably not want to add anything.
I tend to agree. I have far more longish form stuff (and books) come into the house than I'm ever going to read. And that's fine.
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#5"A Better Way of Reading" -> in what way? All I see is teleprompter like text on screen when I click one of the links.
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#6I like being able to put long-form articles into a reading list that I might get to one day. This UI would make me feel like a failure for not reading them, so I'd probably not want to add anything.
I tend to agree. I have far more longish form stuff (and books) come into the house than I'm ever going to read. And that's fine.
If you'd like a list of HN threads you won't read either, there's some interesting threads on the topic of tsundoku [0] or an anti-library [1].
[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=tsundoku (Wikipedia: "the phenomenon of acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one's home without reading them")
Re: Show HN: Parikar, Read long form articles or blogs in a better, measurable way
#7Hi HN, creator here. This is a speed reading tool for longform articles, with speed control. I believe the conversational style UI, can make text reading better and you can come back to the later to read from where you left, it will automatically seek to that position. It also gives you exact time it will take you to read through whole article along with % of article you have read.
I am also experimenting with integrating various AI, APIs like text summarization, automatic tagging etc. to help user read in a better way.
Would love to hear more feedback.
Re: Show HN: Parikar, Read long form articles or blogs in a better, measurable way
#8The way this presents the reading material makes it seem less overwhelming or less likely for you to give up and say TLDR. It seems basically like subtitles for long reading, keeping you engaged (like an audiobook?). Certainly could have helped with summer reading for me back in K-12.
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Re: Show HN: Parikar, Read long form articles or blogs in a better, measurable way
#10Hi HN, creator here. This is a speed reading tool for longform articles, with speed control. I believe the conversational style UI, can make text reading better and you can come back to the later to read from where you left, it will automatically seek to that position. It also gives you exact time it will take you to read through whole article along with % of article you have read. I am also experimenting with integr…
I made some improvements based on the feedback received, looking forward to more comments.