![]() ![]() Sync your library, preferences and reading stats between your devices Add webpages from Safari or other apps using share extension Exercise to improve your peripheral vision, eidetic memory, short-term memory and chunking ability. Speed read by following the highlighter along the page (Highlighting Mode) or by keeping the focused phrase in the center of the screen (Flashing Mode - Rapid Serial Visual Presentation) “A clear winner in the speed-reading category” - AppAdvice “You're in luck, because Outread will help you get through and learn speed-reading in the process.” - Lifehacker You can either follow the highlighter along the page or keep the text centered.įeatured by Apple in “Train Your Brain” section Outread improves reading effectiveness by helping you to focus on reading small chunks of text at a time. To take it for a test drive, just go to click on “Tools,” and select “Free App.” To add the extension to Chrome, to go the Chrome Web Store and do a search for “Spreeder.” If you’ve had any experiences with Spreeder I’d love to hear about them – feel free to comment below.Speed-read websites, ebooks and documents. If you’re looking for a way to speed read in Scribd, as well as other web sites, I highly recommend checking out Spreeder. Yes, it can be used in Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and on Apple’s web browser. Is the Spreeder extension available for other web browsers? So for example, if you wanted to speed read a news article, you could open the article, click on the Spreeder icon and Spreed the article. That’s why I prefer the option I outlined above.Ĭan Spreeder be used with other websites?Ībsolutely, you can use the Chrome add-on with any website you haven’t restricted in the options. You can also choose “Speed read current website” or press Alt+V in Scribd, but with that option, Spreeder will start speed reading the text again from the beginning instead of stopping at the end. I know the above process is kind of repetitive, but it’s the best way I’ve found to use Spreeder with Scribd. To speed read more pages in a Scribd book, repeat the process until you come to the end of the chapter or section you want to read. Once you’ve reached the end of the selected text, Spreeder will stop. If you want to increase the speed, hover on “WPM” in the upper left section of the screen and click the up arrow until it’s at the speed you want. A small window opens up that starts showing one word at a time at the selected speed.Click in the empty space in the window and choose “Paste,” then click “Spreed pasted text.”.Click on the Spreeder icon and choose “Paste text into Spreed” This opens up another window.Highlight all the text you want to read, click the secondary mouse button and choose “Copy.”.Go to Scribd and open a book you’re reading.How to Speed Read on Scribd with Spreeder Click on it with your secondary mouse button and select “Options.” In the window that opens, set up any websites you don’t want Spreeder to appear on. Go to the Chrome Web Store and add the Spreeder extension to your browser bar. However, I figured out a way around this – use the Spreeder Chrome extension. One of the downsides to Scribd though, is that it doesn’t have any built-in speed reading capabilities like some of the Kindle devices do. I like Scribd a lot because I read read a lot of classic books that I like for free. Lately, I’ve been reading a lot more books on Scribd then I have been on Amazon.
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