ShiftReader - Speed Read the Web

Matthew Bennett-Lovesey

2021-06-04

Requires you to register, under the guise of needing a login to save your settings.

Blatant lies aside, you shouldn't need to send data to anyone.

Piyush Kumar

2020-09-02

I am a doctor from India and I'd like to share my feedback.

It's not a magic bullet, but since a lot of the reading material are PDFs, ePubs, other online resources, I found that using shiftreader very helpful.

It is a digital equivalent to a finger that you use to guide your eyes on a printed book. So reading complex and lengthy material doesn't feel intimidating because you are now going slowly word by word until it comes to an end. You just don't feel the pressure. And yes, for my first time with a difficult material (kaplan qbank for usmle), I go through slowly around 100 to 150 words per minute to go over the explanations. And no, I don't read non stop from first line to last line. I jump around up and down. Pause a lot. to digest the more complex concepts. After my first read, I do it again a second timej at a higher speed 200 to 250. I also print out the material I am using, because nothing, i mean nothing can replace a good old printed copy. Because looking at the screen for long is also not productive. Reading printed material has been associated with better retention as opposed to reading online. So perhaps find a balance between the best of both worlds. I for one.

The rules to successful learning still apply. So I recommend going through Make it stick : the rules of successful learning.

I'll have to keep this short. I'm sure many others will find more creative ways to use this wonderful tool.

Give it a try.

I finally caved in and got a premium subscription because it remembers my reading history. So I just like to keep a check on what I have read. So if I want to go back to an article I read on medium a few months ago, I can refresh my memory.

And if there are any bugs, the developer is very supportive and irons out whatever bumps there are along the way.

it still needs a little feature that allows you to switch to night or day mode. Looking at a bright screen for long gets tiring. and makes you unproductive. So the ability to easily switch between night and day mode as in spreed would be really helpful. As a work around I am using Dark reader chrome extension.