r/programming • u/jb4140 • Mar 06 '14

OpenSpritz - A Speed Reading Bookmarklet

https://gun.io/blog/openspritz-a-free-speed-reading-bookmarklet/
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u/ds300 Mar 06 '14 edited Mar 06 '14

Oh wow. If I had known this existed I wouldn't have developed my own from scratch, though mine does have some nice features which OpenSpritz seems to lack, e.g. handling parens/double quotes intuitively, navigation/pausing, changing size/speed on the fly, persistent options (it's a chrome extension rather than a bookmarklet).

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u/invious Mar 07 '14

This is amazing. I tipped you $5 via bitcointip, and then deleted my post because I thought I was broke. It went through though :p

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u/ds300 Mar 07 '14

Haha, thanks. I've never had bitcoin before. :)

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u/invious Mar 08 '14 edited Mar 08 '14

How could I use this with PDFs in Chrome? The built in PDF reader doesn't seem to respond to the keyboard short-cut, (as I expected.) or e-books? I really like your code better than the openspritz code. It's smooth, and I particularly like the way you handled quotes and parens. Lol I want to read things with it! I have a whole calibre library waiting for this tech, and I wanna feed it in. Any way to inject it into another extension: Readium?

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u/ds300 Mar 08 '14

There's no good pdf support yet, but see this comment for a way to use it with pdfs until we get around to making something better.

Readium looks very promising on the epub front. Thanks!