Let me give you a concrete example of how much Word Runner can help you make it through a challenging book. The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth, $8.98, Amazon As with eye strain, there's no real consensus as to how critical a role subvocalizations play in slowing down your reading speed, but my experience with Word Runner tells me that it works. It's quite difficult to stop yourself from subvocalizing, but I have found that, by setting Word Runner's speed to something higher than your normal reading rate for a particular text - again, more difficult texts = slower reading - I can out-read subvocalization and allow the text to just wash over me.
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Rapid serial visual presentation also cuts down on something called subvocalization: the inner narrations you perform as you read a text in your head. Although the jury is still out as to whether or not Word Runner and similar apps can reduce eye strain, I can tell you that, in my experience, this Kindle feature makes it possible for me to read further in the book and for longer periods of time without taking a break. About 10 percent of your reading time is spent moving your eyes back and forth along a line, and when the passage you're reading is difficult, or when you've been reading for a long time, that little bit of time saved can help you plow through the last 20 percent of your giant Russian novel. Still, Word Runner can help you work through a difficult or boring text. I have to read slower when I'm working my way through a difficult text, and I naturally read slower when I'm distracted by noise or other factors. For example, I can read most texts at about 750 words per minute with 80 percent comprehension, but that isn't true of every piece of writing. That's true even if you're a fast reader to begin with. You can't double your top reading speed and expect to still fully comprehend every word of a text. You could, but you probably wouldn't comprehend much about what happened in the story, simply because speed reading isn't really possible. Now, it's worth mentioning that, even though it may sound like Word Runner will turn you into a speed reader, you shouldn't plan to power through that 40,000-word novella in 45 minutes. You can set Word Runner to speeds of 100 to 900 words per minute, but the Kindle feature uses Dynamic Pacing to slow down at difficult words, commas, periods, and other punctuation marks. Word Runner works via rapid serial visual presentation, which is a fancy way of saying that it displays one word at a time in the center of your Kindle screen as it "reads" through the text. Word Runner has been available on Kindle e-readers since 2015, and it's a lifesaver when it comes to reading difficult books. Stuck on a chapter in that classic work of literature you've always wanted to read? A Kindle feature you probably aren't using could help you finish that challenging book.
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