BeeLine Reader App

We're doing a Thanksgiving-themed PH exclusive. For every point on PH, we will give away 5 copies of BeeLine Reader to public school or special education students. #givingtuesday

I'm curious to hear from people that regularly use speed reading apps. There have been quite a few posted in the past (Spritz Bookmarklet, Squirt, Velocity).

@rrhoover, BeeLine Reader isn't just about speed—it also increases reading ease and accessibility. For example, people who read on the subway prefer using BeeLine Reader because it makes it easier to track the lines while in motion. This does have an effect on speed, but it's also about making the reading experience more enjoyable. On the accessibility side, BeeLine Reader has a large following among people with educators and students with dyslexia, ADD, and vision impairments (for different reasons, of course). So while BeeLine Reader does allow the reader to read faster, it's not the only benefit. [edit:] Also, BeeLine Reader is unlike some other tools in that it doesn't force you to read all sentences at the same speed—you can read important/difficult sentences more slowly or more than once. Relatedly, research from UCSD shows that the inability to look back at previous words (an attribute of some speed readers) has "drastic negative consequences" for comprehension. (http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressre...). With BeeLine Reader, you can look back as much as with conventional reading.

If @kane recommends it, I'm sold! I've been looking for the right speed reading app especially for my ever-growing Pocket list (when they add Pocket to the resource list).

So excited to see this! I've stopped using speed-reading apps because I always found reading with them tedious. Beeline is like augmented reality if speed-reading is AI. Just enough magic to make reading easier. Only wish it didn't reformat pages completely—makes it impossible to use web-annotation tools like Diigo with it.