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Show HN: Parikar, Read long form articles or blogs in a better, measurable way

by skbohra123 on 3/15/24, 12:40 PM with 15 comments

• by skbohra123 on 3/15/24, 1:05 PM

  Hi HN, creator here. This is a speed reading tool for longform articles, with speed control. I believe the conversational style UI, can make text reading better and you can come back to the later to read from where you left, it will automatically seek to that position. It also gives you exact time it will take you to read through whole article along with % of article you have read.

  I am also experimenting with integrating various AI, APIs like text summarization, automatic tagging etc. to help user read in a better way.

  Would love to hear more feedback.

• by devnull3 on 3/15/24, 12:55 PM

  "A Better Way of Reading" -> in what way? All I see is teleprompter like text on screen when I click one of the links.

• by notamy on 3/15/24, 12:51 PM

  I can see the "measurable" part, but why is this better? I didn’t see an explanation on the linked page.

• by fodkodrasz on 3/17/24, 6:00 PM

  Why would I need to read in a measurable way? Who am I racing with, who do I need to beat?

  Also it is not any better way to read "long form content" than TikTok is.

• by throwaway739471 on 3/15/24, 1:08 PM

  The way this presents the reading material makes it seem less overwhelming or less likely for you to give up and say TLDR. It seems basically like subtitles for long reading, keeping you engaged (like an audiobook?). Certainly could have helped with summer reading for me back in K-12.

• by blowski on 3/15/24, 12:46 PM

  I like being able to put long-form articles into a reading list that I might get to one day. This UI would make me feel like a failure for not reading them, so I'd probably not want to add anything.