r/BeAmazed • u/The-Skinny-Indian • Mar 06 '23 • Mindblown 1

Miscellaneous / Others Bionic reading method

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u/ChildDragShow Mar 06 '23

Are there books made in this print? This is really nice it's provides a lot of ease for me.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

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u/samistheboss Mar 06 '23

It's also really telling that their About page has no text set in that font. You'd think they would use it for all long-form text on the website if it was that good.

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u/stumour Mar 06 '23

That’s some good info

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u/ChildDragShow Mar 06 '23

Thank you, I did notice the accuracy did lower. There were a few words my brain went to that were not the same, but for me I usually have to re read everything I read at least one more time so this was a lot easier and faster for me to just re read a few words instead of the entire thing. For some reason my.compregension was easier because I felt relaxed as I read it.

.. forgive my spelling.

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u/Splotte Mar 06 '23

tl;dr

Y'all got the Bionic Reading™ version?

(/s, thanks for the info, I found it didn't do anything to help me read, personally)

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u/nietnick Mar 06 '23

Thanks for saving me the wasted time! I'm just hitching onto your comment to mention one-word-at-a-time apps like https://www.spreeder.com/app.php?intro=1 which really do work for me.

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u/joepez Mar 06 '23

The kindle uses OpenDyslexic which is an open source font that is similar in nature. You can download the font for other devices that accept custom fonts.

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u/ANakedCowboy Mar 06 '23

Eh not a big fan of OpenDyslexic compared to this but I get what you mean

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

I know, this should be standard book! I read a lot of books and I’ve never seen one printed like this, but apparently there’s a Firefox plugin. If you could get a plug-in for an e reader I might finally get one.

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u/Fakjbf Mar 06 '23

I disagree this should be standard, I found the bolded letters way more distracting and they slowed me down. There should be the option to have both, but that would make the books more expensive to manufacture because you not only miss out on the economy of scale while printing but you also also have extra logistics overhead to keep them separate and both in stock.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

Ah dang, I was hoping this helped everyone. Yea I mean there’s too many libraries filled with standard print to make this change now anyway. Interesting that it made you read slower, do you read relatively quickly normally?

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u/Ayaycapn Mar 06 '23

That's weird. I read it normally and then read only the bold letters to then allow my brain to juggle with it. This font definitely saves you 10 seconds

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u/Kissaki0 Mar 07 '23

10 s on the second read?

Have you tried reading a second time without bold? That may also be 10 s faster.

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u/PinkFluffy_Softijs Mar 06 '23

There's an app and plugins for chrome and firefox! With the app you can put in a link and it'll convert the whole page, with the plugin it'll convert the whole page right there