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ZAP Reader
Pocahontas County Fare points the way to this ZAP Reader
a web based speed reading program that will change the way you read on your computer. Current beta testers report reading twice as much in half the time–that’s a 300% increase in reading speed, without any loss in comprehension! There is nothing to install, it works with most popular browsers, and it’s totally free!
So you plug in the text you want to read, or an URL, and it feeds the text back to you one large-type word at a time at a reading speed of 300 words per minute. I just discovered that you can reduce the speed as low as 25 wpm and increase it but I don’t know how fast. I got tired and quit clicking at 1,050 wpm.)
The speed wasn’t a problem but I felt a bit like a harried robot trying to read the text. Impossible for the eye to skim or pick up a whole phrase.
Also I discovered that, if you plug in a blog URL, it’ll read the left sidebar first. Better to cut and paste.
However, as Rebecca points out, it might be a solution to some of the web sites that use odd font faces or blue text on a black background or some such eye straining nonsense.
Plug-ins are available for WordPress blogs, as well as Blogger & Typepad, but I think I’ll wait a while on installing it.
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