Speed Reader module - Using Drupal to read EVERYTHING faster!

I wasn’t planning on showing this until DrupalCon (always like to have a trick up my sleve) but nmillin from University Wisconsin caught wind of what I had been posting on twitter this week.  A new module called Speed reader that utilizes a fork of a really cool jquery demo that will seriously warp your mind about how to read materials if you’ve never seen the concept before.

Speed reader essentially allows you to use a jQuery selector to read in text and then present that text one character at a time.  The JS library then takes over and presents the words at a rate you define (starting at like 300 WPM) and attempting to color code (in red) the optimal character for your eye to focus to ingest the word.  I say ingest because the purpose of this technique is to defeat your “inner reading voice” so that you just absorb information instead of having the “read” it.

Here’s a screencast quickly showing how to use it