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04-22-2022, 08:45 PM | #1 |
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Feature request for people with reading difficulties! Simple but powerful!
Here's just a little idea I had, based on:
- what I know the devs who made Koreader can do - what people might like/find super-helpful! Sometimes I have just a little difficulty keeping tabs of where I am in the page of a book, especially if its not a very exciting one but I have to read it anyway (like study). (People who have this kind of difficulty with physical books - like those with ADHD and other reading problems - might choose a special tool called a 'reading focus card'. It lets you isolate one or a couple of lines at a time. It's a black sheet of plastic with a horizontal slit in it. You look at the line through that slit.) It'd be SO cool if Koreader could implement something like this...but perhaps even better! I know it can already put a little ARROW next to where you are up to when turning a page (for PAGE OVERLAP). It can even grey out text to achieve the same thing. It can also put lines on the page, as it does with the speed-reading helper. How about having a mode where you can have one of these options to help you keep your place: - a light horizontal line across the page - a light highlight of the current sentence - the same little arrow, but on both sides - or even the capacity to black out the whole page except for one to three lines (or however many the user wants). Even better - how about having the choice of any of them? (You could implement each over time) If forced to choose, I'd go for the horizontal line or light highlight, because its easier to see than the arrows, and it doesn't obscure anything - which is good if you end up 'moving ahead of yourself' a bit and not actually needing the line at that moment. It would be really simple to 'advance' the line: just hit the page up/down buttons while you are in this special mode (a small sacrifice). Or perhaps the user can use gestures: configure taps on the left and right of the page, for eg. I would find this REALLY cool, esp when Im reading a textbook that my mind wants to wander away from ! Im sure readers would love it! In fact, you might even really help hundreds - even thousands - of kids to (learn to) read! . . Last edited by LivresInOz; 04-22-2022 at 09:42 PM. |
04-22-2022, 08:51 PM | #2 |
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Here's even some possible names for it!
Reading Focus Tool Reading Focuser Focus Line Line Isolator Line Focus Line Focuser ...anyone else? Frankly I'm amazed Android ebook reader apps haven't implemented this. It could significantly increase the necessity of their products. Last edited by LivresInOz; 04-22-2022 at 08:58 PM. |
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It seems like a lot of unnecessary complication and visual clutter imo. If someone has reading difficulties, would starting over from the top of a bookmarked page really be a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions for them? and the idea that there might be hundreds or even thousands (or even, quite frankly, DOZENS) of kids who actually USE KOReader at all seems even more improbable (to be polite).
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04-23-2022, 05:15 AM | #5 |
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I think you move the line manually to the next line of text you want to read.
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* If you lose your place thousands of times in one book, it can get very frustrating - even cause some to give up. Huge waste of time too. To the extent some end up with a B when they could have got an A. That's one side of the set of scales. On the other side is: a line on the page Quote:
Ever seen the movie Field of Dreams? Last edited by LivresInOz; 04-23-2022 at 09:55 AM. |
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04-23-2022, 09:53 AM | #7 |
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04-23-2022, 03:11 PM | #9 |
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Will this app have a feature for controlling posts from people who mistakenly think they're funny and that they should dominate conversations by sheer weight of verbalization? Then I might indeed be interested.
Even though I find your arguments for the necessity feeble and your attempts at humor to be as amusing as DIY dentistry, I would suggest the answer is found in your own words: If YOU build it, they will come (both of them). Last edited by Uncle Robin; 04-23-2022 at 03:19 PM. |
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04-29-2022, 01:23 AM | #11 |
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04-29-2022, 06:29 AM | #13 |
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04-29-2022, 06:47 AM | #14 |
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If the person is learning to read then I would imagine they’d have the reader in a surface rather than holding it. With pbooks one can use a reading ruler - piece of flexible plastic available in different colours and sizes (a search will find them). So where’s the difference here? Also it’d be a lot easier to read a line in a different colour than just a highlight. Some colour tablet readers already have this ability.
I don’t think that rudeness even couched as humour is helpful. It disrupts the thread, and all the replies are trying to be thought provoking rather than dissing. |
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