I'm building a book-reader app using the Spritz API. I started this at LAHacks with help from Spritz developers, but I've decided to keep working on it and try to get it in the App Store.
If you don't know what Spritz is, it's a technology / service to let you read more efficiently, by displaying each word in the same place. Your eyes don't need to scan to find the next word, and most people can increase their reading speeds by a lot because of this. Many dyslexics find reading with Spritz far more comfortable than reading printed text. I'm not going to argue it's use for reading in ranges upwards of 1000 wpm, but I do think it's comfortable and usable for general reading (300 - 400 wpm personally).
Features already integrated:
- Chapters.
- Change the speed as you're reading with a slider. Most Spritz applications don't have this, and it's a shame.
- Pause, play, jump back a few words.
Things left to do:
- EPUB & MOBI support. Shouldn't be too hard. Currently it just reads TXT documents.
- Add Books. From URL initially, next step will be GDrive + Dropbox.
- Bookmarks. Very easy to do with .txt documents, maybe a bit different for e-book formats.
Main view when paused: http://imgur.com/2IyQkSG
Main view when reading: http://imgur.com/yukcvyW
If you don't know what Spritz is, it's a technology / service to let you read more efficiently, by displaying each word in the same place. Your eyes don't need to scan to find the next word, and most people can increase their reading speeds by a lot because of this. Many dyslexics find reading with Spritz far more comfortable than reading printed text. I'm not going to argue it's use for reading in ranges upwards of 1000 wpm, but I do think it's comfortable and usable for general reading (300 - 400 wpm personally).
Features already integrated:
- Chapters.
- Change the speed as you're reading with a slider. Most Spritz applications don't have this, and it's a shame.
- Pause, play, jump back a few words.
Things left to do:
- EPUB & MOBI support. Shouldn't be too hard. Currently it just reads TXT documents.
- Add Books. From URL initially, next step will be GDrive + Dropbox.
- Bookmarks. Very easy to do with .txt documents, maybe a bit different for e-book formats.