![]() It is so heavy that the first thing that brought this to my attention wasn’t the speed of the drop in charge, but the fact that I would feel the iPhone heat up through its case. ![]() It drains the phone’s battery faster than any app or game I have ever used. I really don’t know why, but Outread just destroys battery life. I’ve already mentioned the reasons why I don’t think RSVP is good for online articles, so I’m only going to use Outread for ebooks.Ī huge impact on battery. I tried connecting my Pinboard account, and it seemed to work okay, but the number of articles it downloaded was limited, and as far as I could tell there were no options to tell it to only download unread articles, or allow you to mark articles as read. You can connect your Instapaper, Pinboard, Pocket, and Readability accounts. As you can see in the second screenshot above, you can control the Marker size (the size of the chunk of text) and the Reading speed all the way up to a questionable but enticing 1000 words per minute. Outread supports the two RSVP modes discussed above: static and moving. If the ePub you’re adding has chapters, Outread will recognize them, which really took me by pleasant surprise. You can add files from a URL, from your Dropbox, and for the first time that I have personally seen in an app I use, iCloud drive. Until a solution exists that properly addresses those shortcomings, the only content that RSVP works well for is ebooks. You also don’t get to see photos, or interesting layout, or pretty much any non-text-based method that the author is using to enrich the content or communicate something. That’s not an option in any of the apps I’ve tried. It’s dynamic and connected, and I want to know when the author has decided they want to link to something, and choose to pursue that link. You lose links and you lose all other text-formatting. I want to see the links, and they don’t show them to me. You have to select some text first, which is still a hassle, and on many pages with bad layout, is not possible without also selecting a lot of junk from sidebars or other places.Īll of that I could put up with, except that I’ve found that RSVP as it’s done today doesn’t work very well for online content. You can’t be on a page you’d like to read, click on the bookmarklet, and immediately be ready to start, Instapaper-style. There is a Spreeder bookmarklet that you can place in your browser’s bookmark bar, but it’s not fast to use. The first way you can use Spreeder is to have it loaded in a different tab, copy text from the page you want to read, paste it into the Spreeder text box, and start. ![]() You paste some text into a text box, click a button, and start “spreeding”. ![]() Spreeder is web-based, and is fairly simple. The solution I see most often is Rapid Serial Visual Presentation ( RSVP), and specifically the static mode where the words appear one at a time, replacing each other in the same location, instead of the focus or highlight box moving across lines and paragraphs. So you end up reading slower than you can because your mind understands and then waits for the inner voice 1 to finish silently producing the sound of the word to move on. The idea is that it takes more time for your inner voice to speak the words than it takes your mind to understand their meaning. stopping that inner voice from silently speaking the words you’re reading. Speed reading methods include chunking and eliminating subvocalization.Īll technical attempts at enabling speed reading that I’ve seen have aimed at eliminating subvocalization i.e. Speed reading is any of several techniques used to improve one’s ability to read quickly.
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