Increase your reading speed - software reviewed

Safin

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Today when most of the work is done on computers, An enhanced reading speed and the capability to understand what you read is of paramount importance. Not only on computers but also while reading books, if you like reading and your reading sped is slow then these are the software that can help you.
Here are some of the best of the lot:

# ACE READER :
This is a grt software. With clear stress on not only developing reading speed but in also developing the comprehension capability. You can work with text or with graphs. Extensive online reading material is provided along with exams and questions. Moreover after you are done with it you can use any text you yourself have to continue to work with reading speed.
This is a prooven product with number of awards from major sites.
What it gives :
1) Capability to fully customize speed of display along with the text lines to display.
2) Real time reading speed
3) Word search capability
4) Tests based on the text you read.
5) Extensive reading material supplied. You can add your own too



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# Rocketreader
Again a software like ace reader. Extensive reading material with stress on comprehension.
What it offers
the tachitoscope (flash training),
word grouping training to improve word chunking efficiency,
speed training to accelerate reading,
page reading to simulate written page reading.

You also are provided a regular feedback on the tests and the reding speed. All in all a grt product and if you like flash even better.


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# Reading Acceleration Machine
The grt thing about this is that its a freeware. Ofcourse don't expect many grt features here.
RAM 3.5 is a small freeware device for presenting word-groups sequentially at a pace chosen by the user. It is a tachistoscope ("rapid-viewer") that supports efficient and rhythmic reading, rehearsal of text-comprehension, and acceleration in reading speed. It facilitates the repetition that has long been known to be essential for language-learning.
Users load a plain ASCII or ANSI-textfile that consists of lines separated by carriage returns. They then negotiate this loaded list by FORWARD and BACK buttons, or through the automatic-review features.
crollbars set and display the desired rate for:
Per-line speed;

Per-word speed: each word can add a slight delay so that, for example, a five-word phrase will take longer than a four-word phrase;

Inter-item screen-blanking, which allows for a momentary blankness on the screen after an item has flashed.

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Enjoy!!
 
Doing this , i came accross this wonderful piece of software too. Not exactly a speed reader but still its very useful:
Speed Reader - File browser
If you have lots of plain text files on your hard drive then you will know how frustrating it can be sometimes to open them all individually to find the info you are looking for. This handy utility will help you to quickly browse through your drives and folders and display the text files with just a few clicks. Simple but effective.

Although originally made for text-only use, this updated version now adds a basic image viewing feature. It's not meant to be an all-in-one media browser but it will provide you with fast access to some of the most commonly used image formats. Graphics can be viewed either full-size or "tiled" for handy testing of small seamless textures.

The program supports many formats including *.jpg, *.png, *.bmp, *.psd, *.tga and more. Please note that you may see error messages if trying to load corrupted image files, or graphics labelled with the wrong extensions, or unsupported compression modes (LZW Tiff's for example). Paintshop Pro (*.psp) format support has been disabled for now due to incompatibility with the latest version. Gif files are NOT supported due to the current licensing terms with Unisys.

And best of all
Price : Freeware for both personal and commercial work
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