The File Menu

The file menu is opened by the action button [] in the header of the main page. You will see the the local storages of your mobile device and the last five recent opened files.

If you press a device storage item, a file-open dialog will appear, which will emumerate all *.txt, *.html, *.epub and *.mobi files on that storage. While the spinner in the header is turning, the enumeration is still running. If you close the menu, loading will be done in the background. Once you click a file, the text will be displayed in the main page. The actual text will be saved in the local storage of the browser. So after a restart, the previous text will be restored.

The Main Page

The body of the main page (white part) is divided into three parts

1. The preceding text
2. The current word with position
3. The following text

Clicking into the preceding text will paginate one half page up; clicking into the following text will paginate one half page down. The time label (format h:mm) before the current word on the left side will show the elapsed time and the time label on the right side will show the estimated time of the following text. The calculated time depends on the speed options set (see below). The seek bar under the current word will show the position within the file. By clicking or sliding, you may roughly set the position. Every position change will be saved in the local storage of the browser. So after a restart, the previous position will be restored. Positions are saved per file. If you open a previous opened file, the current position of that file will also be restored.

The Toolbar

At the bottom in the footer are five action buttons

1. [?] Displays this help
2. [] Sets the current position to the beginning of the file
3. [] Opens a search input with forward and backward buttons
4. [] If no bookmar is set (outlined [] sign), it will set a bookmark at the current position. If a bookmark ist set (filled [] sign) it will jump to the bookmarked position. If the position equals the bookmarked position, the bookmark will be cleared again []. Beside this, a long press will clear a set bookmark
5. [] Starts speed reading (see running mode)

The Running Mode

Pressing the "Play" button [] on the main page will start the speed reading. The position display will move to the top, and at the bottom a speed adjustion will become visible.

Clicking on the "+" button will increase the speed, whereas the "-" button will decrease the speed. Between the buttons, the actual speed (words per minute) will be shown. Clicking in this area will reset the speed. Clicking or sliding the seek bar in running mode is also possible. Any other click will stop speed reading. The running mode will also be terminated, if the app becomes invisible (e.g. in case of an incomming call)

The Options Page

Opening the options page (action button [] in the header of the main page) to manage the speed reading options. All options will be saved in the local storage of the browser. So after a restart, the previous set options will be restored.

Following options are available

1. Factory Setting - Clears the local storage. All options are reseted to factory settings. Also the recent file list is cleared, the current text will be cleared and all current positions from each file are cleared.
2. Recent Files - Only clears the recent file list
3. Theme - Toogles between default and dark theme
4. Contrast - Setting the brightness of foreground/background depenging of the theme
5. Encoding - Assumed encoding for text and html (if not specified within html) files. On encoding issues try ISO-8859-1 or your country default code
6. Word Size - The size of the displayed current word in the main page in pixel
7. Text Size - The size of the displayed preceding and following text in the main page in pixel
8. Speed - The speed in words per minute. (Large words will be displayed longer than short words, proportional to the average word length). Possible values: 10 ... 5000
9. Min Chars - Sets the minimum length of words in speed calculation. If a word is shorter than this value, it is treated like a word with the given length for its speed calculation. Possible values: 0 ... 8
10. Max Chars - Sets the maximum length of words in speed calculation. If a word is longer than this value, it is treated like a word with the given length for its speed calculation. Possible values: 8 ... 32