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Comment on: Show HN: ReadKinetic – a free, local-first speed reader for your own books
Yeah, the skimming thing surprised me too when I started looking into it. In regular reading, people skip about a quarter to a third of the words, mainly small ones like "the" and "of." Your eyes grab the next word or two out of the corner of your eye before you actually see them.With RSVP, you save the eye movement, but you also lose the skipping. You have to look at every word, no matter if it’s important or not. Those two factors might balance each other out, which I think is a big reason the actual speed gain is much less than what most speed reading products promise.The formatting issue y