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Can Bionic Reading make you a speed reader? Not so fast

  • Written by: Lauren M. Singer Trakhman, Assistant Clinical Professor of Human Development, University of Maryland
imageIn an age of distraction, the desire to read faster and more efficiently is understandable. eclipse_images/Getty Images

What if something as simple as bolding parts of a word could make reading a breeze, improving your focus, speed and comprehension?

That’s the claim made by the creators of Bionic Reading, an app that revises texts so that the...

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