Rapid Serial Visual Presentation

[Wontonion]

Anyone use this format as their ebook reader? Fastreader, and Speed Reader Plus are programs that use this technology. Basically, they flash words sequentially, in the same space. The idea is that most of the time humans spend "reading" is their eyes moving laterally looking for the next word/recognizing it.

Anyone familiar with "RSVP"? Anyone know if it is actually faster than normal reading? (if i just had a stopwatch handy...) I'm a sucker for efficiency in everything i do, that's why i ask.

google fastreader and speed reader plus--my preference--for free demos if u want to try this out. it's definately different! (But is it faster?)

i realize that ebook readers might not always fit in to the "need for speed" camp that many pda-owners do, but i figured this was the appropriate forum to ask nevertheless.

[luismend]

I´ve tried speed reader plus and it´s really a bit faster to read using it than MS Reader, for instance. But I rather use it for "jornalistic" or factual information. For literary texts, I prefer to use MS Reader, so I can go back and forth, re-read an interesting phrase, it´s more like a book.

But I will register anyway, it´s very interesting how one can read blazing words...

[arebelspy]

I love speed reader plus!! :D

I find its great for reviewing something you've ready before.

-arebelspy

[cyclist]

Anyone familiar with "RSVP"? Anyone know if it is actually faster than normal reading? (if i just had a stopwatch handy...) I'm a sucker for efficiency in everything i do, that's why i ask.
For me it is. When I first got Speed Reader Plus I had it set at about 200wpm. Within a couple of months I got to around 500-700wpm - setting depends on what I'm reading and how tired I am. Factual stuff tends to need a lower setting than fiction.

My readers of choice are Speed Reader Plus for anything in English (my native language) but Microsoft Reader for German, which I have to take rather more slowly.

[xendula]

My readers of choice are Speed Reader Plus for anything in English (my native language) but Microsoft Reader for German, which I have to take rather more slowly.
Where do you get your German lit books from? Do you know if there are any free books anywhere to be found legally? MS sells the PPC with their reader but does not offer free books for the German speaking customers. :evil:

[cyclist]

Where do you get your German lit books from? Do you know if there are any free books anywhere to be found legally? MS sells the PPC with their reader but does not offer free books for the German speaking customers.

Even if Microsoft did offer free books in German, I wouldn't use them. I don't have the space to install a second version of reader, and I refuse to use DRM protected books on principle, even if free.

In many cases I'm using the tool to create .lit files in Word from sources in other formats.

I'm working through stuff from Project Gutenberg here http://www.gutenberg2000.de
http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/
My current book, which is good fun and not hard for a non-native speaker, is Aus dem Leben Eines Taugenichts by Eichendorff:
http://www.gutenberg2000.de/eichndrf/taugen1/taugncht.htm

Books by Karl May at http://karlmay.leo.org/kmg/primlit/index.htm

There's stuff written by non-professional writers at www.literaturcafe.de

http://ebooks.pdassi.de is a selling site that has a few free books, look for the Kostenlose Buecher link on the left hand side.

That's enough to keep me busy for many years :)

[xendula]

Thanks cyclist. Gonna have a look at these links. I convert my own stuff, too, but wondered whether there were already converted files somewhere.

[cyclist]

I convert my own stuff, too, but wondered whether there were already converted files somewhere.
There's a German language PPC discussion forum at
http://www.ppc-welt-community.info/Community/index.php
It has an E-Books topic where you could ask, or have a look for past postings.

I found a link to short stories in .lit by Mattis Manzel "Zwei Seemänner sitzen in Barcelona und essen einen Albatros". Sorry I've lost the URL for that, but you should be able to find it using google.de. I wasn't overly keen on the stories, but they may be to your taste.