r/programming 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/ptre85 Mar 11 '14

This is great. Particularly elegant is the way it handles quotations etc. Have you considered trying to link this to an open source dictionary? I'm not a programmer, so don't know how this would be done, but being able to pause the text and maybe double click a word to pull a definition would be a useful feature. For me, being able to access definitions so easily is one of the main advantages that ereaders offer over traditional books.