Btw spritz is an evil company who bullies software developers with their ridiculous and vague patents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9046034

To my knowledge they do not have a patent ;)

Are you the creator of BR?

Yes, that's just me, Renato Casutt. From a small town in Switzerland. I discovered BR in my studies as a typographic designer. And I think it's time to show that typography is not just well-designed text pages. There are also ways to make reading easier for other people with reading difficulties (e.g. dyslexia sufferers).

Yes, you are right. The problem with Spritz is that you lose the overview of the text and therefore you can't optimally absorb the context of the content. Some users have already confirmed this to me. But the technique is cool...

There are many good RSVP apps and browser plugins. I find it better for news or other things I want to skim read, than trying to power through a novel.

You are right. The advantage of Bionic Reading is that you can customize your reading settings.

I think if you want to read a book in a relaxed way, but you have dyslexia (10% of people), then Bionic Reading can help you.

Any preferences for plugins and apps these days? I used to use RSVP tech a decade ago in the Windows phone days, but have not seen great modern clients.

There's an open source version that works as a simple bookmarklet here: https://github.com/ds300/jetzt

It also looks to be available as a Firefox extension, Stutter: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/stutter/

There's also spreeder on Android in similar spirit which I found useful to read web content. The downside is I have to copy and paste it from the browser