EFFICACY-SPEED READING: AceReader Pro update

From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Wed Feb 19 2003 - 04:30:34 MST

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    I just got a new versions (2.2d) of AceReader Pro running.

    Contrary to my prior post, a page-style tachistoscope *is* available
    (it's called Eye Trainer Scroll Mode, and I might have misremembered
    it as not working because of one other thing I really wished for:
    a programmable end-of-page delay to give me time to swing my eyes
    back up the way I do when I flip a page in a real book). Might be
    a teeny bit nicer if it greeked the text around the "lit" zone with
    the proper word shapes. I don't want much, do I? :)

    For now, I can just use a function key to repeat-burst what I miss
    when my lazy eyes take their time getting back to ULC. I'm using
    Times New Roman with a custom page color that approximates cream
    laid paper and maroon for the font color. It looks better than it
    sounds.

    Mr. Marasco (the programmer-entrepreneur at StepWare) says a
    new major version is coming out some time later this year, and
    he thinks I'll be pleased with some new features. We shall see--
    I'll report when/if I know more. I'm hoping for some improved
    HTML support.

    Now to get it working with Pivot (the screen rotation software)
    on something portable. I might try to read all my email (at least)
    this way.

    MMB

    PS: thanks to Alex F. Bokov (I think it was) for introducing
    AceReader to me. He had some other interesting tools that
    he was using for learning enhancement--check the extro archives.
    A search on AceReader will probably turn the relevant post up.



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