Thread: Bionic Reading implementation on Kobo?
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Old 05-19-2022, 01:16 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin View Post
Wow, THAT was irritating! I'd never heard of it before, and thanks to that ghastly sample paragraph, I wish I never had. I don't read super fast, but that hideous setup would slow my reading right down while cranking my irritation levels right up.
I can't decide about it. I can see that it might help but I could also see it getting irritating. I am curious about why, if this is so good, the first thing you see on the page does not use it. And they only use it for samples, not the rest of the page. Why aren't all the testimonials using Bionic Reading.

I did look through the page for references to how it worked or the studies to show it was better. I didn't see anything.

Simplistically, it appears to be making the first half of each word bold. You could probably write a regex-function in the calibre editor to do that.


And after seeing the name, all I could think of was, "We have the technology to rebuild language. ... Better, stronger, faster."
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