Questions tagged [reading]
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'Stubborn' DVD, unreadable with various products
I have a DVD that I want to play. I have attempted to play it with VLC, PotPlayer, MPC-BE and one or two other products.
No luck.
Is there something else that I could try that takes a particularly ...
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Online service for reading books
There is a lot of book-reading software but it all works as native apps. Is there something similar that works without installation, just as a web service?
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Searching for a way to access mobile highlights/quotes on desktop
I am currently using ReadEra book reader on Android. I am searching for a way to access my quotes/highlights through a web application or a Windows application. I am okay with switching to a different ...
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Best Document Review/Proofreading software?
I've been asked to review a 60 page word document that is an application for European funds. The document is technical/scientific.
What is a good software to review the document, to correct: grammar, ...
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Reading sentences one by one beside a picture
I'm interested in android application with the following features.
It should enable reading a webpage with sentences which are played
one by one beside a picture.
The application should enable better ...
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Reading-mode for Chrome?
Is there any service enabling a "Reading mode" for Chrome across devices?
Usability concerns
The possibily best solution would be a bookmarklet. Due to same-origin constraints, it cannot load ...
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Program to help speed read regular books
Are there any iOS applications that will accelerate reading of a regular book?
For example, you could place your iPad in front of your text book and then it would highlight or block out text so that ...
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PDF reader that remembers page across devices
When I'm reading some material on my desktop and want to bring it with me on either my tablet or my laptop, I will have to remember at what page I was, to continue reading. That does not work me.
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Spritz speed reading with Text-to-Speech (TTS)?
I love Spritz speed reading technology.
I also love listening to text via text-to-speech technology (TTS).
I'm looking for an app (on Windows or Android) that combines both technologies. That is, as ...
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Extension for required reading time
Is there any extension that can tell me how much time it would take a person to read a page?
I need for Firefox.
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Android PDF viewer that maintains Roman Numerals before page 1?
I have several text books I am trying to read on my Android tablet, and it's very frustrating that the page numbers do not correspond to the numbers written on the page, since there are about 20 to 30 ...
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Reading, writing and speaking improvement app
I am looking for a mobile application (Android or iOS) to improve reading, writing and speaking skills of kids aged 12-15 years.
I care about English and Arabic languages.
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Nighttime Windows 10 ebook reading
I use a Windows 10 tablet. I purchased an ebook on the Amazon website. The ebook is technically on their Kindle platform (? wrong word) but you can view the ebook on the Windows 10 tablet using Amazon'...
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iPhone app recommendation for offline reading
I am new to iOS and need some app (free/paid) recommendation for the following:
Subscribing to RSS feeds and caching them for offline reads later
Reading PDFs which allows increasing font size
These ...
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PDF as flip book on website
Our organization would like to take a PDF of a document we have created and host it as a flip book on our website or link to it from our website on another service.
We do not plan to make any more ...
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Webcam-based behavior analysis of users reading a MS Word file
I am looking for a free software application to analyze reading behavior (where do they more stop while reading, etc.) of the readers of MS Word files. I guess such program would probably use an eye ...
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Is there any PDF reader like Foxit Reader, for Linux?
I have installed Foxit Reader in Fedora, using wine. I found a foxit Linux version, but it is not like the windows version, because there are many things that cannot be done, compared to the Windows ...
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Manga reader with automatic downloads
I'm looking for a Windows equivalent to the android app MangaRock.
The software should be able to:
Access manga feeds I specify manually (as can be seen here for example.)
Save a list of favorites
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Database recommendation for fast batch reads
I am currently working on a machine learning application that requires users to upload datasets, so naturally I want a database that has very fast batch-reads. Writing is only a one time process, but ...
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Twitter threaded reading
Reading a full discussion including all sub-threads in Twitter is hard if the discussion fork into many sub-discussions and you want to make sure you have read it all.
So I am looking for a Twitter ...
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how to always load any url/link of a domain in reader view in Firefox?
I visit wuxiaworld.com & spend a lot of time reading pages on the site in Reader View in Firefox
I have subscribed to RSS feed of the website & when I click on it, the page opens in Firefox,...
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Is there an equivalent to a "Reading guide strip" for Windows, OS X or Linux?
I am looking for something like this:
(from Amazon.com)
I would like to know if there is a program with an equivalent function to a reading guide on the computer, both for web browsing and ...
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Any PDF reader with continuous horizontal scrolling?
I have a specific use case for PDF reading, which I'm struggling to fulfill.
I frequently read magazines on my (Windows/Linux) tablet (hybrid, actually). Since the screen is relatively small (16:9 11....
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Sharing paper reading log and comments between lab members
Members of an academic or industrial research lab read papers that may interest other lab members. The comments they have on papers may also be worth sharing with other members of the lab. I'm looking ...
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A tool to paste text and make it nicely readable?
I'm looking for a tool that allows me to paste text and transforms this text into a nicely readable format (cf. Pocket, Readily).
Requirements (can be one of the following):
Chrome app/extension
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Software to retroactively outline and collapse (legal) documents
My job requires to work a lot with complicated legal documents that are unstructured and complex. I would like to import a document and define regions where I could collapse whole sections. This would ...
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Collaborative reading of a PDF (+ chat)
I'm looking for a software (or a site) [or even a combination of many] where two people can collaborate by reading a PDF where anyone can underline things and highlight them, while at the same time ...
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Mozilla Firefox extension for night reading?
I'm looking for an extension for Mozilla Firefox that functions just like Dark Reader for Google Chrome.
[Dark Reader] uses special intellectual way to transform bright blinding stuff into eye ...
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Looking for and Android cbz file reader with infinite scrolling
I am looking for an app (FLOSS preferred) that will display .cbz files with "infinite scrolling" - i.e. similar to what some book reader/pdf apps will do where you aren't going "page by page" but can ...
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Alternatives to readability extension in Google Chrome
I have problem finding a good way to view web pages that offer too small margins when viewed in full screen mode. The problem is that the line width becomes too large so it is difficult to read. Of ...
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Looking for an iOS news aggregator that doesn't hide links to actual article source
I am trying to find an alternative news reader to News360, News Republic, or Flipboard. Those apps all have the content layout, interface, and filtering that I want, but do not provide an easy access ...
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Chrome extension (desktop) to make make all pages automatically 'reader mode'
Is there a way to made Chrome go into a 'reader' mode like Evernote Clearly. Ideally an extension for Chrome or maybe a user script like Stylish.
I'm aware of these extensions and Chrome's 'Distil ...
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Is there an app similar to night mode available for Windows Phone 8.1?
I am a daily news reader and use MSN news for that purpose but the app lacks an inbuilt night mode option. It is difficult to read the MSN news app at night without a night mode option.
Can you tell ...
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Dual EPUB reading
I have started using my tablet for reading EPUBs and I have found a lot of differents versions of the same book.
So, is there any application that allows me to compare, i.e., to see both versions in ...
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Text-only FULL News Reader / Aggregator app or service
I'm looking for a news reader / aggregator app or service that:
Presents FULL articles without having to visit another website
Presents both article "list" and "content" views as TEXT ONLY (no ...
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Fast way to search/view within a 1MB text file with ".xml" extension in Android
I have a 1 megabyte text file on my Android SD card.
It has a .xml filename extension that I can't change, but the content is actually human-readable.
I often need to search into the file and read a ...
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Speed reading software for Windows
I'm looking for a speed reading software for Windows. I am aware of Spritz for Android, Velocity for iOS and the website Speeder. I am looking for a program having as many following features as ...
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