This actually seems to work for me so far (I’m experiementing with Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments). You simply copy the text and then paste it into the box at spreeder.com. You set the speed you want (it is set automatically at 300wpm, which is too fast for me at this point) and it flashes one word at a time at you.
Fair warning, don’t try to change settings in the middle of reading unless you want to start over or manually use thte slider to find your place.
I wouldn’t want to do poetry this way, but if there are books you feel like you have to read and don’t have time to do so, then I think this is worthy of consideration.
Mark
Thanks so much for this link – it looks like a useful tool. I played around with the settings a bit, and found it much easier to reduce the font size and have 20 words flash up at a time. That way you don’t have to focus on each word, but can scan phrases at a time, which by itself speeds up your reading.