[wi5cat]

Hey!

It's just yet another way to read a book, that can be useful in some cases and can make the reading more interesting and clear.

The idea was initially simple - split it to read it. Reading paragraph by paragraph might help you to read more slowly, carefully, and deeper.

Also, I've added a lot of themes, fonts, and effects to let anyone set up their own style of reading.

[pai]

This is exactly what I wanted. I was looking to build something that highlights sentence by sentence, but now I realize paragraph works much better. The themes, wallpapers and font options makes it even better. Thanks a lot for this app.

[gnull]

Can you make it not scroll the text when it's not necessary? Sort of pop the new paragraphs under the one I just read, keeping the latter in place, until the screen fills up.

[wi5cat]

Hi!

Just to clarify, when you click on the next paragraph button - next paragraph will appear on the screen without scrolling and changing your current paragraph?

Maybe multi paragraphs mode that you can find in the settings can help you to read in a such way?

[gnull]

Yeah, the currently active paragraph seems to be always at the same position on the screen (seems to be somewhere in first 1/3 of the screen height). If I've finished reading paragraph i and the next one is i+1, i+1 will appear where i was and i will go up.

I'd want i to stay in place and i+1 appear under it (and become active). This way there is less movement on the screen and I don't have to scan the screen up identifying where the new active paragraph starts, just keep reading the new paragraph where the old one ended.

I imagine it like the difference between scrolling a text with mouse when reading it, or with page-down button. I prefer the latter, this way your eyes move through screen as they would do with paper instead of picture moving and your eyes staying on the same place, and you can also utilize location memory (“I remember that author said X at the bottom right of the page while the top of the page was saying Y”). The other thing is, it provides another way to split the text into “pages” and give you a natural feeling of how much you've read (location memory again, “author is introducing X, I remember that they've set up the scene for it two pages back”).

The current mouse-wheel-scrolling-like approach seems to be more like audiobook that gives you book contents in a continuous stream, while the page-down approach is more like paper split into pages. I think both must have some benefits and looks like your tool (with some change) can accommodate both types of readers.

[wi5cat]

thank you! for your time and such a detailed response, it sounds very reasonable

[turtlebits]

Having the text jump in position isn't great for the reading experience. The previous paragraph is also disappearing and reappearing. It's like reading via flash cards.

Scrolling is a more natural way of reading.