Zap Reader: Web application that allows you to read any text faster

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With today's overload of information, I'm almost positive that you don't have enough time to read everything you would like to. Zap Reader is a web application that tries to help you in this herculeous task.

Here's how it works: you access ZAP Reader from your web browser, paste the text you want to read into a box and click "Zap it!". The application will be launched, and after you hit play you will start seeing a word-by-word flow into your screen that is supposed to help you go through the content faster.

If you go to settings, you can define the number of simultaneous words you see, the speed, font size and color. To facilitate the copy/paste process, you can add a Bookmarklet to your favorites, so whenever you are reading an article, you just select the text and hit this button. The company also offers integration with different blogging tools and is currently deveolping plug-ins for MS Word and Outlook.

On my personal experience, I didn't find it helped much. Perhaps my ability to concentrate is not good enough for this tool. However, I did find the idea very interesting and will probably try again later with a more interesting article and some tweaked settings.

Zap Reader is free and you can access it here.

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