Speed Reader (sr)

A terminal-based speed reading application that displays text word-by-word.

Platform Support: Linux and macOS only.

Features

• Customizable reading speed
• ORP highlighting for faster reading
• Smart pausing at punctuation marks
• Pause/Resume with spacebar
• Time-limited reading sessions
• Read from file or stdin
• Bookmarks: Automatically saves your position when reading from a file (press b to manually bookmark)
• Saves reading Statistics

Installation

From Release

Download the latest release from releases page.

From Source

go install github.com/kskitek/sr@latest

Usage

Usage of ./sr:
  -f string
    	Input file path (shorthand)
  -file string
    	Input file path (optional, uses stdin if not provided)
  -t string
    	Time limit for reading session (shorthand)
  -time string
    	Time limit for reading session (e.g., 5m, 30s, 1h)
  -w int
    	Words per minute (shorthand) (default 300)
  -wpm int
    	Words per minute (default 300)

Development

This one is managed completely by Claude - I am not interested in really maintaining this project. It does what it does for me.