This looks like a neat idea! A couple of questions if you don't mind:
1. Does the pass apply to the Firefox version too?
2. When you say "It works with Kindle books..." what do you mean? On desktop only? (My) Kindle doesn't have colour.
Re:How to Read Books When You Have ADHD
by gnicholas on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @09:28AM
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Yes for Firefox and yes via the kindle cloud reader (on desktop or our iPad app).
Re:How to Read Books When You Have ADHD
by bluedays on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @02:40AM
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That's pretty cool, though I think I would be capable of creating a userscript that can apply gradient text.
Re:How to Read Books When You Have ADHD
by gnicholas on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @02:50AM
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Yeah, the most seamless way is when it's integrated into a browser itself. The new Insight Browser (YC W19) offers this functionality in a pretty slick way (and it's totally free). [1] We also have a JS widget that can be embedded into a website, like The Program has done for their transcripts. [2]
1: https://www.insightbrowser.com
2: https://programaudioseries.com/0-the-program-comes-for-us-al...
For people who want to actually get through books, I'd recommend this tool [1], which I created several years back. It has become fairly popular in the ADHD world and is recommended at top universities (Stanford/Yale/Dartmouth) to students with ADHD and dyslexia. It works with Kindle books as well as many websites.
The Chrome extension comes with a 2-week free pass and I'm happy to send a month-long pass to any HNers out there who can benefit from it.
1: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/beeline-reader/ifj...