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Comment author: EmilYaroslav 08 July 2012 07:46:45PM 0 points [-]

Wow, brilliant idea! I've been doing some speedread-training and realised how much I could improve my speed. Your plugin is ingenius I must say! What you really should do to it improve though, is remove the "-" at the end of a sentence where a word is too long so the whole word is displayed together (shouldn't be too hard to fix?). At the moment this can make it quite hard to read some articles. You should also make it pause when it encounters a heading.

Btw if you are looking for some help on devoloping it or promoting it, I might be able to help :)

Comment author: jimrandomh 09 July 2012 08:09:45PM 0 points [-]

Thanks! The hyphenation thing is trickier than it seems, since in general there's no easy we to distinguish a compound word which happened to fall at the end of the line, from a hyphenated word. This will be one of the things I focus on when adding PDF support, since PDFs tend to use hyphenation much more heavily. Most web pages don't use hyphenation at all; if there's one where it's particularly bad, send me the link and I'll see if there's a good workaround.

I'm not looking for programming help, but publicity is always welcome. If you know people who would benefit from it, show them a demo and encourage them to install it. If you have a blog, you can put a Speed Read This button on it.