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A live demonstration — the article is running past one fixed point at 350 words per minute.

Read the whole article, twice as fast.

Paste a link. It strips the page back to the article and sends it past one point that never moves, so your eyes stop travelling and the words come to you.

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    What this is

    A free speed reader. Paste a link and it fetches the article, strips the navigation and the ads, and flashes it a few words at a time — up to four, grouped so a group never straddles a sentence. Your eyes stop travelling and the words come to you.

    One letter of every flash is pinned to the column those two hairlines mark, and it stays there for the whole session: that column is the only thing your eye has to hold. Speed runs from 100 to 1000 words per minute, and punctuation gets a longer beat. Lose the thread and Read as text gives you the article as ordinary prose with a highlight moving through it at the same pace — read normally for a while, then pick the flash reader back up where the highlight got to.

    No account, no tracking, no analytics. Articles are fetched by this site's own server, so your browser never contacts the source directly, and your position and settings stay in your own browser.

    RSVP·Reader

    Paste a link and read the article here, a few words at a time, at a point that never moves.

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    WordGlide

    A reading guide for the page you are already on. The layout, the images and the links stay exactly where the author left them.

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