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eBook Library supports speed reading plus an eBookshelf. You can practice your speed reading skills using plain text eBook files with speeds between 50 wpm and 1500 wpm. Reading speed is set using four ranges (very slow, slow, medium, and fast) and a slider is provided to adjust the speed within each range. Speed settings are saved between sessions. Any plain text file may be used but eBook text files can be downloaded free from the internet. The user should copy just the eBook text (not text before or after the actual book text), paste into a TextEdit file and save as plain text with Unicode
What's New
Version 7.0.0:
- replaced the "Dim Text" checkbox with a slider to adjust the darkness of dimmed text
- displays the expected time to finish
- supports printing of the Help Info
- numerous code improvements
- use of the spacebar to pause/continue reading was removed.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
eBook Library User Discussion (Write a Review)
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eBook Library supports speed reading plus an eBookshelf. You can practice your speed reading skills using plain text eBook files with speeds between 50 wpm and 1500 wpm. Reading speed is set using four ranges (very slow, slow, medium, and fast) and a slider is provided to adjust the speed within each range. Speed settings are saved between sessions. Any plain text file may be used but eBook text files can be downloaded free from the internet. The user should copy just the eBook text (not text before or after the actual book text), paste into a TextEdit file and save as plain text with Unicode UTF-8 encoding. This file is then used as a source file. Select this source by clicking on the "Choose New Source" button and navigating to the file. The line number of the line being displayed is shown together with the total number of lines in the source text file. You can pause and continue at any time. If you do not finish reading a text file, eBook Library will remember the last line read and provide this information when you relaunch to continue reading. In that case, you would click on the "Use Last Source" button to load text saved during the previous session after parsing. You may start reading at the beginning or at any line. You may select automatic or manual scrolling. The estimated time to finish is displayed. When you first launch eBook Library, a folder titled "eBookshelf" is added to your Documents folder. The eBook menu includes a menu pick to help you find free eBooks on the internet, a menu pick to load a file from your eBookshelf and another menu pick to let you save a parsed text file to your eBookshelf. An eBook loaded from your eBookshelf appears in the display almost immediately. A Help window is available. Version 7.0.0 is Universal Binary.
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dreamlist is small:
font resizing, so you could read the book at an enlarged font of 14, 16, 18, or 20
automatic scrolling window size, so it reads down like a book and starts at the top of the window again
color sections, so when your tired, a left section of green text a right section of blue text make it easier
It's a great application.
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Macinshroom reviewed on 31 Mar 2006
The program also has a neat (optional) auto-scroll feature that makes it very confortable to read large texts without having to have the hand in the keyboard or mouse all the time.
The application interface also helps you focus on the text a lot more than using another text reader. If you are new just follow the instructions in the help menu to understand how to import new books.
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Anonymous reviewed on 12 Oct 2005
It shouldn't take as long as it does to shoot a file through grep stripping the linefeeds and replacing them w/ single spaces. A word is just contiguous letters without whitespace. So if you detect whitespace of any kind as 'NOT A WORD' then you should have an appropriately fast application with all the speed it needs and no need to pre-convert files.
I'm not saying this is a bad application. It's good. I hope you continue to develop it, but the runtime engine seems too slow for most people to give it a second look. The reason I mention the pyrite system is you can send a pdb straight into text and chain the filters (it's old, but it would work).
I particularly like the way the placement and scrolling work in eBook LIbrary. Whether this is a better method of speed reading that static placement is probably up for grabs, but it more accurately approximates normal text placement so it's much more useful for people using non-digital source than any other speed reading applications I've seen.
In short. Thanks, this is a good application and much appreciated. I would really like to see development continue.