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RE: Speedreading books. - SpriggsySpriggs - 11-30-2023
I wouldn't call it a dud. It is doing the exact same thing as Spritz (google.com), which is very popular for speedreading. I can't remember for what purpose, but the extension would also highlight one of the letters in red. I'm not sure if that was to force your eyes to the middle of the word or not. It's been years since I've used the extension.
RE: Speedreading books. - euklides - 12-01-2023
"Speed reading" does'nt always meaning "understanding what you read"...
Well, can you adapt your idea for reading epubs ??? (I have only 5200 of them ...)
RE: Speedreading books. - SMcNeill - 12-01-2023
(12-01-2023, 03:17 PM)euklides Wrote: "Speed reading" does'nt always meaning "understanding what you read"...
Well, can you adapt your idea for reading epubs ??? (I have only 5200 of them ...)
Pffft. 5200 *IS* only. I've got about 150,000 of them. Heck, I've got more than 10,000 author folders alone...
You need to collect harder, my young padawan.
RE: Speedreading books. - SpriggsySpriggs - 12-01-2023
I don't think I'd call torrenting a library "collecting". I'd just call it data hoarding lol.
RE: Speedreading books. - SMcNeill - 12-01-2023
(12-01-2023, 03:59 PM)SpriggsySpriggs Wrote: I don't think I'd call torrenting a library "collecting". I'd just call it data hoarding lol.
I'd love to find everything in one torrent. It's taken me 30+ years of collecting from various sources across the web to gather my collection. Sitting at multiple TB of data, you're not going to find any torrent where someone wants to transfer that much data out across the globe to countless others.
RE: Speedreading books. - SpriggsySpriggs - 12-01-2023
(12-01-2023, 04:08 PM)SMcNeill Wrote:(12-01-2023, 03:59 PM)SpriggsySpriggs Wrote: I don't think I'd call torrenting a library "collecting". I'd just call it data hoarding lol.
I'd love to find everything in one torrent. It's taken me 30+ years of collecting from various sources across the web to gather my collection. Sitting at multiple TB of data, you're not going to find any torrent where someone wants to transfer that much data out across the globe to countless others.
I've found torrents much larger than just 1 TB. I've found plenty that are several terabytes. I guess you and I pirate things differently.
RE: Speedreading books. - SMcNeill - 12-01-2023
(12-01-2023, 05:52 PM)SpriggsySpriggs Wrote:(12-01-2023, 04:08 PM)SMcNeill Wrote:(12-01-2023, 03:59 PM)SpriggsySpriggs Wrote: I don't think I'd call torrenting a library "collecting". I'd just call it data hoarding lol.
I'd love to find everything in one torrent. It's taken me 30+ years of collecting from various sources across the web to gather my collection. Sitting at multiple TB of data, you're not going to find any torrent where someone wants to transfer that much data out across the globe to countless others.
I've found torrents much larger than just 1 TB. I've found plenty that are several terabytes. I guess you and I pirate things differently.
I've downloaded some massively huge torrents and files, but I'd never *upload* one of that size. One person grabs a copy, that's 2TB uploaded. 1000 people grab a copy, that's up to 2PB uploaded (depending on how many hit and run without seeding)... Your ISP would cut you off, ban you forever and ever, and/or raise your service charges to the roof!
The only way you usually see torrents of that size being offered is if they're on a seedbox somewhere, and not being uploaded directly via someone's home connection.
(FWIW, I've tended to find that just setting up a file server and letting another user navigate/browse it and then click-and-grab whatever they like, works best in most cases once you get into large collections. Most folks only want to grab that ONE series they're missisng, or that one song/album which they've been looking all over for. They don't have any real interest in having to grab terrabytes of other stuff, just to unpack and get the one thing which they do want from the collection.)
RE: Speedreading books. - SpriggsySpriggs - 12-01-2023
Unless you are the only seeder, a torrent doesn't pull only from your PC.
RE: Speedreading books. - SMcNeill - 12-01-2023
(12-01-2023, 07:58 PM)SpriggsySpriggs Wrote: Unless you are the only seeder, a torrent doesn't pull only from your PC.
When you first upload, you're the only seeder. You need to share 100% before anyone else can become a seeder. Most folks are on limited bandwidth, so IF they download a TB torrent, they immediately stop it. They're hit-and-run downloaders. The amount they seed is going to be trivial. Most folks don't have TB of bandwidth, storage space, and connectivity. When it gets to being that size, folks upload once to a dedicated seedbox, and then they leave it up to the seedbox to transfer over.
No matter how you hack it, if it's a 2TB torrent, you've got to expend 2TB to share and seed it even once. Once you filter out the hit-and-runs, you'll probably need to seed that thing for months before it becomes "stable" for long-term reliability.
If you're movng that size torrents around, then you've got a HELLUVA internet plan! Share the details with us! I'm certain a ton of folks would love to be able to afford such transfers!
(My ISP is giving me 2TB transfers per month for about $50, with $1 per 10GB overtures after, at close to 1GBS speeds. Just what type of plan have you found to subscribe to?? The world wants to know!)
RE: Speedreading books. - grymmjack - 12-01-2023
Hey man, this is a cool idea. One thing for me about seeing only one word at a time is I get a little anxious that I will miss something. I'll try your program though and see how it goes. Thanks for sharing, @justsomeguy