Reading is one of the most fundamental skills, and reading for pleasure can transform your health, memory, and productivity. In our age of information overload, however, it can feel like there isn’t ...

Like the Readability browser extension (whose open-source technology it’s actually built upon), BeeLine Reader is a little button that sits in your bookmarks bar. Click it, and the article you’re ...

Windows: If you'd like to experiment with speed reading Speed Reader Enhanced is a tiny—23k download!—application for turning any block of pastable text into a speed reading exercise. Slap in the text ...

Spritz, a Boston-based startup that’s been developing a speed-reading technology in stealth since 2011, is in the process of closing a $3.54 million seed funding round. Investors include Denis O’Brien ...

In the despair-inducing young adult novel Flowers for Algernon, a man named Charlie with a low IQ receives an experimental treatment that makes him temporarily way smarter than he normally is. Then he ...

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