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Re:Show HN: Ditch Black Text to Read Faster, Easier by WalterGR on Thursday September 05, 2013 @10:16PM (#6338328)
Since I don't find RSVP mentioned in the comments here:

That technique is called Rapid Serial Visual Presentation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_Serial_Visual_Presentatio...

(The Wikipedia article should mention saccades (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccade) but strangely it doesn't.)

I wrote an RSVP reader in the mid-to-late 90s in QuickBasic. I'll have to see if I can dig up that code. :)

Re:Show HN: Ditch Black Text to Read Faster, Easier by lectrick on Friday September 06, 2013 @12:33AM (#6338680)
That's odd. I wrote an RSVP reader in the exact same timeframe in RealBASIC, for a Cornell Psych class (I got an A).

I am still annoyed that things like the Kindle don't have that mode.