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Mobile speed-reader edition

One of the coolest remixes that anyone's done of my books has been the speed reader that Trevor Smith put together, which flashes the books one word at a time, at high speed, inside a Java applet. Though the words fly past so fast that they practically flicker, they are still readable -- there's some heretofore unsuspected talent buried in our brains for parsing sentences when rendered as rapid-fire flashcards.

Now Crutcher Dunnavant has adapted the speed-reader to run on Java-capable mobile phones, which makes sense: the screen on a handy is just the right size to show one word at a time.

(Thanks, Crutcher!)

2 Responses to “Mobile speed-reader edition”

1. Frederick Fiore says:

   November 17, 2007 at 7:09 am

   10am EST Sat 11-17-07
   I was just looking for some kind of mobile or portable reader on the google site & found your information. It seems like an incredible idea, the kind that huge corporations would like to eliminate.
   What's your progress at this point? Will it ever reach the market or is it just a passing whim?
   Thanks
2. ALIVE says:

   July 21, 2009 at 1:22 pm

   Эх... Вы бы знали что про Вас пишут в других блогах

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