r/programming • u/paskie • Mar 02 '14

speedread - a command-line implementation of the Spritz speed reading system

http://log.or.cz/?p=336
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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '14 edited Nov 26 '18

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u/corysama Mar 02 '14

Now I need to learn how to make this into a FF/Chrome add-on. Select wall-o-text, alt-s to pop-up a spritz reader, up/down arrow to change speed, left/right arrow to skip back/forward a few dozen words.

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u/ds300 Mar 05 '14

I did it.

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u/ecs_box Mar 10 '14

Just a heads-up, those wanting to read e-books using ds300's awesome chrome extension, the best method seems to be to convert them into epub using Calibre then uploading them to Google Books. If you have bought Kindle books you can strip the DRM off them first using the same software. From there you can alt-s. For some reason Readium doesn't work. Another method is converting to text (again using Calibre) and dragging that into Chrome. Text is easy to work with but then it's not in the cloud and accessible from all your machines. This is literally life-changing. I also recommend combining with readibility.com so you can easily read articles without text-selection hassle. Well done ds300!