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DescendingNerdli · 08-08-2018, 05:42 PM

Training the eyes to move fluidly across a page has proven to be effective in remediating many reading issues, not the least of which is dislexia.
I would like to add this functionality to the Calibre viewer, but, as a novice in every respect, I need help to get started, at the very least.

My approach is to change the foreground color of the page to the background color and restore the foreground color one word at a time, or even one syllable at a time if selected, at a selectable speed. Then, restore the colors to normal at the end of the piece. Cursor controls would be used to back up and move ahead, etc.

I wrote a macro in MSWord once to do this that was effective, but Calibre seems an ideal medium for the functionality.

As I said, I am a novice with both Calibre and Python and I would appreciate your help.

Thank you!

08-08-2018, 05:42 PM	#1
DescendingNerdli Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2018 Device: Calibre	add reading training to viewer Training the eyes to move fluidly across a page has proven to be effective in remediating many reading issues, not the least of which is dislexia. I would like to add this functionality to the Calibre viewer, but, as a novice in every respect, I need help to get started, at the very least. My approach is to change the foreground color of the page to the background color and restore the foreground color one word at a time, or even one syllable at a time if selected, at a selectable speed. Then, restore the colors to normal at the end of the piece. Cursor controls would be used to back up and move ahead, etc. I wrote a macro in MSWord once to do this that was effective, but Calibre seems an ideal medium for the functionality. As I said, I am a novice with both Calibre and Python and I would appreciate your help. Thank you!