@Tamara
Great question!
Reading faster and enjoying reading are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Wouldn't you like to be able to read more books, in the same amount of time, with the same level of understanding?
Sure, different types of reading require different amounts of time and attention. Ideally, you should be able to adjust your speed according to the material at-hand, speeding up and slowing down as necessary. There is no need to read the morning newspaper as if it were a Shakespeare sonnet. It is like saying I like to go on long Sunday drives, so why would I need a car that goes faster than 30 miles per hour and has more than 2 gears.
I'll leave it at that. I don't mean to start the great speed reading debate.
With respect to other features in QuickReader, I have lots of users that don't necessarily use the speed reading mode of the reader, but enjoy it for the simplicity of the interface, the amount of customization you can do, and the touch-free reading.
Many reading apps on the iPhone have rather utilitarian and confusing interfaces or they are very limited in the amount of customization you can do.
With QuickReader, you can choose from 23 fonts, 100s of font sizes, 19 custom color schemes, or create your own color scheme from 1000s of colors; set line spacing, margins, orientation, and right justification; and turn off the sleep function of the phone (useful in touch-free reading.)
Many find the touch-free reading to be very useful. I have one user who uses it to read in bed. He tires from the constant page turning on the iPhone and can't stand readers that scroll. He puts the phone on his pillow, sets the words per minute to his normal reading speed, turns off the visible guide, and lets the app turn the pages for him.
-Patrick
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Patrick Thompson
Inkstone Software
www.quickreader.net