Very cool!
QuickReader is very nicely done -- having the moving highlight pushing me along in the text is very effective. Sometimes it feels like I want to move ahead of it, and other times I feel I’m being pulled along faster than I would have read otherwise. IOW it’s showing me just how turbulent my reading speed tends to be. It’ll be nice to have an opportunity to even things out.
I totally love how it automatically interfaces with the ebook library in Calibre, where I have all my ebooks stored anyway. I just opened the "Books in calibre" item and all my books in Calibre (already running on my Mac) were automagically listed right there on the iPhone. Didn’t have to set anything up at all. So now I have lots of interesting things to read. Nifty!
There is one problem, though its really outside of the design of the app -- QuickReader isnt good with Japanese text. It does display it just fine, but without spaces between the words QR doesnt know where to divide things so the moving highlight can’t split text into e.g. three chunks-per-line. It just displays each line as one chunk, meaning at the same speed setting it scrolls down the page at triple speed :D. But it’s not designed for Japanese text, so that’s not worth a star off. Totally worth the 700 yen.
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QuickReader - Speed Reading, v2.2.1