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by fsiefken
1437 days ago
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Coincidentally I was wondering a similar thing this morning. To get as much text as possible on paper for holiday reading I managed to get the text down 30% while by stripping out any vowel but the first in a word, replacing 'the' with '#', 'and' with '&' and of' with '%'. I also used the smallest Tahoma font and multiple columns.
This increases reading complexity just as Sans Forgetica, but perhaps also increases reading speed somewhat- because words get stripped down to their 'essence' (perhaps similar to chinese or japanese script) and your eyes move less with multiple columns.
In that 'word essence'sence this technique has similarities to Bionic Reading. Combining the two would be tricky, as what letters would be bolded with the devowel method and can you get closer to a word essense?
The combination with Beeline and Bionic Reading or devoweling could have more potential. It's nice that Beeline has gray scale support. sed 's/ and / \& /g' -e 's/ of /\ % /g' -e 's/ is / \= /g' -e 's/ th / \# /g' -e 's/\B[aeiouAEIOU]//g' -e 's/\(.\)\1/\1/g' -e "s/'//g" sacred-world.txt > sw.txt |
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