Tag: READING

Want to read faster? Try ZAP Reader. It's a free web app that will, in theory, as much as quadruple your reading speed. It works like this: You find some text you want to read fast, you paste it into ZAP Reader and hit Play, and ZAP Reader starts flashing the words on the screen. You can control the speed it goes at (it starts at 30 words per minute) and pause it, and you can skip backward or ...

Have you ever wondered if your writing is going over your readers' heads? No, me neither. But in case you're curious like me about the readability level of your web site, Juicy Studio's Readability Test will tell you. Just enter a URL and it will give you a bunch of data about its readability including its Gunning Fog Index and Flesch-Kincaid Grade which are supposed to tell you how much schooling ...