On my system I have several shortcuts set up to Ctrl+Alt+XXX so invoking any one of those also sets sprint reader into auto select mode. Perhaps have an option to change the keyboard shortcut? At the very least the mode probably needs a timeout. I keep finding blue boxes in browser windows I haven't touched in an hour or so.

300 wps, 3 words per chunk

Too long words in chunk are splitted on 2 lines and that interferes with reading "flow".

My ideas for this issue 1) downsize font to match window size 2) display less words.

Konrad

Similar to #31.

Expected:
Sprint Reader to skip past the ninth line ('....................................................') of the copyright doc. (I changed the text from hyphens to periods).

Actual:
Reads each individual period as its own word. (GIF screenshot).

Note:
A string of '=' reads as one word (which is good). I.e. '==============' will go by as one word. This is what I expect functionality to be for a string of hyphens.

When I have 2 displays and the browser is opened in the second one, an extension window appears always on the first display. It should appear on the same display where the browser is.

Using chunks of 4 words with wordlength algorithm seems to go at the same speed per slide as it goes for single words per slide, when a slide should take longer because it's more words. So trying to read 300 wpm with chunks of 4 words using the wordlength algorithm takes about 1/3rd of the time that it takes to read the same text at 300 wpm with chunk of 1 word with the same algorithm.

I tried to read the code and see where the problem was but it's really hard when you have 1 .js file with over 1400 lines of code, it's not clear when variables/funcs are called or for what purpose :(

It'd be great to have a gif or webm embedded somewhere to show what this reading approach offers, eg the Key features of Sprint Reader: section's contents both in its current form and then next to it an alternative.

Thank you for making a better add-on than other competitors.

It works only once after installation.
Deactivating and reactivating an add-on also only works once.

I am using Vivaldi developer version 1.8.755.3 on Windows 8.1.

Hello. thank you for awesome tool and open sourcing it. I would be very glad about the dark mode theme for that

I'm using Sprint with 300 wps and 3 words per chunk.

Quite often Sprint is displaying just single word when it is last in sentence and its OK but it displays it not long enough. My eyes not even catching it :)

Konrad

The HTML <label> element can have an optional attribute for, which should be set to the id of the respective input element.

<input type="checkbox" id="foobar">
<label for="foobar">Foo bar</label>
<!-- Note: the type here does not matter, it works for all types. -->

Alternatively, the <input> element can be put inside the <label> element.

<label for="foobar"><input type="checkbox" id="foobar"> Foo bar</label>

I've noticed this issue in:

• https://github.com/anthonynosek/sprint-reader-chrome/blob/master/src/advanced.html
• https://github.com/anthonynosek/sprint-reader-chrome/blob/master/src/reader.html
• Maybe other HTML files.

I would love to try out this extension. But the "Read and change all the data on the websites you visit" part of the permissions bothers me. I get some comfort in that it is open-source. But couldn't help wondering why the permission to read all data on all websites is required. Wouldn't it be possible to just have the "Read data you copy and paste" permission?

Wish Chrome offered finer grained controls in terms of giving more details and ability to control or restrict them e.g. when it says 'Read and change all the data .. etc'.

Anyways does Chrome offer any way to make it easy for the extensions developers to negotiate the permissions with users at install time by selectively enabling / disabling features related to user selected permissions. E.g. If I as a user would like to disable the 'Read and change all the data ..' part by trading some functionality would it be possible for an extension developer to offer that?

Or is the only viable option be to fork and create another version of the extension with the specific permission and corresponding functionality removed - if it is at all possible to do so without sacrificing the main workflows. Or maybe make it as an Chrome App where text is pasted and read.

Hi,

This extension is really nice! However, I have not yet see -any- "fast-reading" application that includes an unique feature that I have see in "ireadfast" (iphone), which is an extremely simple thing but also extremely essential imho:

Let's say that when comes the new word, it is simply "replaced" by the old one, so your eyes don't see the difference on the dots between the previous and next word, so is harder for the brain to catch the words

By other side, if you simply add a "remove word before to show the next one", this problem is solved, it can sound confusing but it makes your reading much much better, you can perfectly see and recognize the words at speeds like 800 without problems, even at 1200 you can almost understand what you are reading (hardly), but in any case you can "see" the words

Im not sure about the timing of each one but supposed that it runs at "one word per second", then during the first 0.5 seconds the word is shown, then it is hidden (blank) during 0.5 seconds more, and then the new word appears... maybe 75 % of the second it is shown and the 25% before the next one is unshown, more or less like that

Thanatermesis

It would be great if you could remove the Chrome-specific parts of this extension (where possible) to conform to the WebExtensions standard. This would allow the extension to be installed in Firefox, Opera, or even IE.

Hi, as a user from belgium, i often have an AZERTY keyboard in front of me rather than the standard QWERTY. As such it would add tremendous utility if the keyboard shortcuts for skip/rewind and increase/decrease wpm speeds could be customized

Thoughts?
thanks!

as google+ is shutdown the button should be removed.

1. Move "Show Remaining Time"
   Reason: can't view when the remaining time in the beginning and when the progress bar is Turned Off
2. Auto-pause slide
   Word slides should automatically pause when moved to other tabs or windows or other places in sprintreader(eg, settings, statistics etc.)

I closed src/welcome.html. Rather than trying to dig for the file or reinstall the extension, add the info in the description of the extension at chrome://extensions/

Please stop utilizing the "open new tab" on install to communicate information to the user. In a vacuum, this would be perfectly acceptable, but when syncing a Google account to a NEW Chrome install or Chrome device, 19 new tabs open from various app vendors, Sprint Reader included... I humbly request other approaches are investigated to communicate the necessary information to the end user WITHOUT opening a new tab every time the extension is installed.

While trying to read the contents of this page, I started noticing that some words are getting skipped.

If you try to read the following paragraph, for instance:
"The first master rhetorician Rome produced was the great statesman Cicero..."

You will notice that Sprint Reader is "skipping" (maybe "joining" would be better) some of the words on the very first phrase, getting as a result:

"The first master produced was the great statesman Cicero..."

Steps to reproduce:

1 - Access this link
2 - Find the mentioned paragraph
3 - Select the paragraph and "Sprint read selected text"

No content is being passed to the reader window after pressing Z.
It seems the value of the text is dropped somewhere within a function.

Hey guys I was wondering if it's possible to use the auto selection mode for PDF pages, it will be awesome if speedreader could provide a shortcut to read the current displayed page.

thank you all!

Update the GitHub icon which appears on the main reader screen (top right corner). At the moment it doesn't have a transparent background and should be updated so as to remain visible irrespective of the colour scheme chosen.

In summary, the icon needs to be improved to "play nicely" with all the available colour schemes.

I'd like to suggest some kind of special treatment for words that appear twice in a row, for example "had" in "He had had a good time". Whenever they appear I have to double-take and normally pause.

My suggestion would be either to try #7 or to treat them as one word with twice the time on screen.

I don't think going beyond doubles (triples) will help much, in fact you'll need to be careful not to die with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_while_John_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_a_better_effect_on_the_teacher or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo .

Hi everyone.

I'm not sure if the title is clear. I refer to characters such as this.

It's becoming common to write texts with characters such as these on Facebook, maybe in order to look cooler.

If the link that I provided is to be believed, it should be easy to replace each character by the ASCII equivalent, which I suppose is necessary to control the display of words.

As for actually displaying the words, I suppose either the original character or the ASCII equivalent could be displayed. Right now, it's displaying � for all those characters.

Thanks in advance.

Similar to #32

Expected:
Sprint Reader to skip past the ninth line ('--------------------------------------------------------------------') of the copyright doc.

Actual:
Reads each individual hyphen as its own word. (GIF screenshot).

Note:
A string of '=' reads as one word (which is good). I.e. '==============' will go by as one word. This is what I expect functionality to be for a string of hyphens.

Tested on this web page: https://elakiri.com/threads/zzzz.1985981/

Expected the result is: Unicode characters of words displaying in the sprint reader popup window as the same as the webpage.

Actual result: Some kinda weird dotted circle character appears between characters in the sprint reader popup window.

for example. for the text
" sounds successively—that is"
When I enable the split hyphenated words option, I would expect four tiles

sounds
successively
that
is

But I got

sounds
successively—that
is

I think the code in engine,js arround
if (textOnSlide.indexOf("-") !== -1) {
could be changed to include
all these characters

-
–
—

Please add an option to disable the social buttons because they stand out on the UI and let Google and Facebook track the user.