ReadMe! (Spritz & BeeLine)

This app is fantastic. I was already a very fast/avid reader, but still, there were classics I’d put off. This app has made it possible for me to increase my reading speed as well as finish off a few of those books on my list. I find my comprehension is higher at this pace with this app than when I “skitter” or photoread. My nine-year-old goddaughter loves the app, too, and always asks to play with it on my phone. We read quite a bit of Little Women together that way. It would be amazing if this were integrated with more formats, but it’s not that hard to find books. It’s also extremely good for the purposes of writing: I load my rough drafts up as PDFs and read them, which keeps me from editing while reading, and allows me to quickly get the sense of a whole.

I wish I could figure out a way to get it.

Speed reading via Spritz works... Well for most people. First let me talk about Spritz itself: I had no problem comprehending all the words Spritz spat at me but my girlfriend did. I did notice that books with a lot of dialog was difficult comprehend who was saying what... But straightforward non fiction books it was easily read and absorbed. The real problem lies in the fact that Spritz forces developers to upload text to them instead of actually processing Spritz text in the app. This means no Spritz reading offline or in areas where you have spotty connections. Additionally, Spritz itself seems to have a hard time processing and keeping up with the workload as new apps are reaching the marketplace. As a result, you may get frequent Spritz timeouts while the app is attempting to upload your text to Spritz. As for the ReadMe app itself... It's not bad but not great. Still buggy. Books seems to disappear at times or show no titles or text at all. But ultimately it works (mostly). It's a pretty app and has a lot of promise. If you want to be the trailblazer for Spritz reading then this is the app for you.