Years upon years ago I read about a trick to speedread by just flashing words in giant font at a set speed; your eyeballs don't need to move, and you can force-train yourself by speeding it up.<p>I wrote an Objective C Mac OS app (which I normally never do, so that was quite a bit of messing with completely unfamiliar tools such as Xcode) and the rarely used 'services' menu so that I could select any text and fire up this app.<p>It worked wonders for prose. It doesn't work for highly specific technical reading, or anything where the formatting itself is important, as that is, naturally, obliterated.<p>A mac or two later and I don't really want to build it again.<p>But, does anyone know of an app or site that does this for you? Possibly with some nice advances such as:<p>* Give you a little more time on complicated words.
* Possibly let you click a paragraph in e.g. a webpage and then just blast that paragraph past your eyes, letting you mix reading and looking at the layout. This sounds great for wikipedia, where there are images to look at, table data, paragraphs, etc.<p>If no such thing exists I might be tempted to write it as a browser extension.