Bionic Reading is a new way of reading text that uses a patented algorithm to highlight the most important parts of words, making it easier and faster to read. The method was developed by a German software developer named Renato Cukar, who was inspired by the way the human eye reads text.
Bionic Reading works by highlighting the most important parts of words, which helps the eye to follow the text more smoothly and efficiently. This makes it easier to read longer passages of text, and can also help to improve comprehension.
Bionic Reading is available as a free Chrome extension, as well as a mobile app for iOS and Android. It can also be used on websites and in PDFs.
See https://www.howtogeek.com/882688/why-you-should-use-bionic-reading-in-chrome-or-any-browser/
EDIT: Although some individuals claim to see improvement, it may be that results do vary as one test shows no real improvement across the board - https://blog.readwise.io/bionic-reading-results/
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Find it hilarious that the article itself didn’t utilise this, what a missed opportunity!
They did for one paragraph to show the contrast. But yes they could have done the whole article, actually.
This has never been proven to work. There is no scientific evidence to back up the claims. The inventor of Bionic Reading seems to have no background in Neuroscience whatsoever. There are articles trying to debunk the Bionic Reading claims, but those are not backed up by scientific peer-reviewed studies either.
https://blog.readwise.io/bionic-reading-results/
https://labtoclass.com/bionic-reading-science-or-scam/#Is_Bionic_Reading_Backed_by_Research
Well there is one study I found that is recent, saying it shows nothing conclusive about any improvement. Some individuals claim improvement, but then it must be specific to whatever reading issue they have. It is certainly not showing any general improvement for everyone.
Can you please provide a link to the study? Is this a scientific peer-reviewed study or just a simple experiment conducted by an interested party?
I updated the main post earlier with a link to the study I saw
Here the (most popular) extension for Firefox: Bionic Reader by Rain Jr.
Same for Chrome-based browsers: Bionic Reading by bionic-reading.com
I will give this a shot. Anything to make my brain absorb information faster. Matrix style, ideally.
Can you get it for Android? Looks useful
The problem is, there seems to be no actual evidence that it is improving reading speed and comprehension across the board.
Is that really a problem though? Even if it’s just placebo, it might help some.
For me it didn’t necessarily improve reading speed, but it did improve legibility. Just having something a little more bold separating the words has been helpful. Might just be placebo though
So how can I get my ereader to do this?
ironically, the article is not written using this technology (only the first paragraph)
But if you have the extension active, the whole article appears like that ;-)
