A Chrome Extension for Bionic Reading on ANY website!
The best way to install this extension is to follow the instructions below. However, we will also periodically be releasing this extension on the various stores under the name Jiffy Reader.
- bionic-reading
- Table of Contents
- Installation Instructions Chrome, Edge and chromium-based browsers
- What is Bionic Reading?
- How to build
- Development
- Download the latest build
chrome.zipin releases - Open the file location (e.g. Download).
- Right click the ZIP file > Extract All > OK.
- Open the folder in the command line (Suggesting to use bash terminal in case you are using the Windows operating system).
- Run
yarn install; yarn build;. - Open Chrome > go to this link
chrome://extensions/. - Enable "Developer mode".
- Click "Load unpacked" and then choose
extension/chromeinside the extracted folder. - To pin the extension, click the puzzle icon on the top right of Chrome, then pin the extension.
- Download the latest build
firefox.xpiin releases (Use other browsers, Firefox won't allow downloading unsigned xip files) - open Firefox
- enter
about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefoxin the URL bar - click "Load Temporary Add-on"
- select the
firefox.xpi
- Download the latest build
chrome.zipin releases and unzip it - open Opera
- Enable Developer mode in Extension page
- click "Load Unpacked"
- select the folder
Bionic Reading is a new method facilitating the reading process by guiding the eyes through text with artficial fixation points. As a result, the reader is only focusing on the highlighted initial letters and lets the brain center complete the word. In a digital world dominated by shallow forms of reading, Bionic Reading aims to encourage a more in-depth reading and understanding of written content.
Read more about Bionic Reading.
Need to install npm and yarn To build run followings
- yarn install
- yarn build (This will create extentions for chrome, firefox and opera inside extention folder) to debug run
- Run
yarn dev:chrometo start dev server with hot reloading
You may enable vscode to runyarn dev:chromeby copying .vscode/tasks.json.example to .vscode/tasks.json