Bionic Reading is a new way of reading text that uses a patented algorithm to highlight the most important parts of words, making it easier and faster to read. The method was developed by a German software developer named Renato Cukar, who was inspired by the way the human eye reads text.
Bionic Reading works by highlighting the most important parts of words, which helps the eye to follow the text more smoothly and efficiently. This makes it easier to read longer passages of text, and can also help to improve comprehension.
Bionic Reading is available as a free Chrome extension, as well as a mobile app for iOS and Android. It can also be used on websites and in PDFs.
See https://www.howtogeek.com/882688/why-you-should-use-bionic-reading-in-chrome-or-any-browser/
EDIT: Although some individuals claim to see improvement, it may be that results do vary as one test shows no real improvement across the board - https://blog.readwise.io/bionic-reading-results/
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Find it hilarious that the article itself didn’t utilise this, what a missed opportunity!
Can you get it for Android? Looks useful
The problem is, there seems to be no actual evidence that it is improving reading speed and comprehension across the board.
Here the (most popular) extension for Firefox: Bionic Reader by Rain Jr.
Same for Chrome-based browsers: Bionic Reading by bionic-reading.com
This has never been proven to work. There is no scientific evidence to back up the claims. The inventor of Bionic Reading seems to have no background in Neuroscience whatsoever. There are articles trying to debunk the Bionic Reading claims, but those are not backed up by scientific peer-reviewed studies either.
https://blog.readwise.io/bionic-reading-results/
https://labtoclass.com/bionic-reading-science-or-scam/#Is_Bionic_Reading_Backed_by_Research
