How to "quickly read" in Liunx "?

Have you heard of quick reading? To be honest, neither have I. Until a new company named Spritz raised 3.5 million seed funds to develop an API that enables users to read 1000 words per minute. The concept of quick reading is very simple: dividing a text into independent short ones

Have you heard of "quick reading? To be honest, neither have I. Until a new company named Spritz raised 3.5 million seed funds to develop an API that enables users to read 1000 words per minute.

The concept of "quick reading" is very simple: dividing a text into separate short parts, such as a word or two, and then making these parts quickly flash through the screen. In this reading process, the reader's eyes do not need to exercise at all, thus reducing the unnecessary page browsing time spent by the reader during normal reading. Because this is a relatively new technology, no one knows whether your brain will explode or crash at this reading speed. However, in fact, this technology is very safe, because your brain is running enough to process this information quickly. Once people get used to this reading method, it will become very convenient. I think you are already excited about the arrival of this technology like me, but I don't want to wait, but get used to this reading method faster. The good news is: now you can try "quick reading" in your favorite operating system.

1. Spread0r

Based on Perl and GTK2, spread0r (formerly known as Gritz) is a GPL software that uses text documents as input and then flashes the text content up to 1000 words per minute before your eyes. Of course, you can try to get familiar with it slowly. The user interface of the software is very brief, and the function buttons are almost simple: start reading articles, select reading speed, and launch. This software also has some improvements. I suggest enabling it to support files other than text documents as input (you can also convert the format yourself ), you can also consider adding the "no interference" mode. In any case, this software is very tall.

You can download the source code from github and start the "spread0r. pl" file to try Spread0r. Note that you need to install GTK2 and Perl in your operating system first.

 
 

  
  
___FCKpd___0nbsp;sudo apt-get install libgtk2-perl (for Debian/Ubuntu) 
  
  
___FCKpd___0nbsp;sudo pacman -S gtk2-perl (for Archlinux) 
  
  
___FCKpd___0nbsp;sudo yum install perl-gtk2 (for Fedora)  
 
 

2. Spread

In addition to e-books and Word documents, I read the most articles from the internet on my computer (yes, this is the cause of this method ). If I need to copy and paste the text I want to read into a text editor, save it as a txt document, and then open it with Spread0r, it will become too much trouble. Fortunately, a Chrome expansion program Spread will handle this demand for us. After installing and enabling Spread in your Chrome browser, you only need to select the text you want to "quickly read", right-click the selected text, and select "Spreed selected text. "This extended program opens a new window, and the text you choose will be quickly read for you in that window. I like this practice of integrating with Chrome using extensions. For example, you can select the color of the window, the amount of text to be read at a time, the font size, and the start and stop of the window, you can even perform quick reading with more than 4,000 words per minute (but this is not a quick reading, you can only see sporadic flashes ).

3. Squirt

If you like to quickly read ideas in your browser, but you do not use Chrome or "extensions", the solution is to bookmark Squirt. In addition to Squirt, Squirt is my favorite quick reading tool. It is very efficient and easy to use. Add it here and drag the big blue button into your favorite bookmarks. Then you can open it on any web page, whether or not you have selected the read text-a white panel will appear on the current page. You can intuitively control the reading of text. The user interface is very beautiful, and it can also achieve reading speed of more than 4,000 words.

Bonus: Zethos

If none of the above solutions can satisfy you and you are a programmer, you will be very happy to find a free and open-source JS project called Zethos, you can use it to develop your own "quick reading" application. You can view the code on github and give the author a thumbs up.

All in all, you have no reason not to "quickly read" your favorite operating system. You only need to prevent your brain from burning. Which of the above solutions do you prefer? Or do you have a better choice? Do you think "quick reading" can develop in the future? Comment in the comment area to let us know your thoughts.

Via: http://xmodulo.com/2014/04/speed-read-linux.html