RSVP: Rapid Serial Visual Presentation. Words flash one at a time at the optimal recognition point, eliminating eye movement. Pure speed.
Chu·nk: Groups of words displayed together, training your eye to process phrases instead of single words.
Bionic: Bold beginnings guide fixation. Your brain fills in the rest, reducing processing time per word.
Beeline: Color gradients across lines create a visual rail, guiding your eyes smoothly from line to line without losing your place.
Marks
Show: punctuation on the screen, the way it always was.
Breathe: punctuation off the screen. The room dims and the words fade at every boundary, then come back. A comma is a breath, a period a pause, a paragraph the book set down.
The breathing set: in Breathe, a row opens under the panel. Each book carries named sets (Focus, Deep, Sharp), and a saved cartridge carries them with it. Breath: paced breaths a minute; the room swells on the in-breath and settles on the out-breath. Ride: the words ride the breath, quicker on the in-breath, slower on the out-breath, the same wpm over a whole breath. Land: a sentence end waits for the out-breath. Hush: with Ambient on, the sound swells in on the in-breath and falls away on the out-breath (in Breathe it breathes instead of ticking on every word). In: how much of each breath is the in-breath. Swell: how far the room settles. Depth: how deep the dips go at a boundary. Beat: a brainwave beat in the sound (with Ambient on), riding on the Tone. Binaural wants headphones; Pulse works on speakers. Descent: minutes to ease in from waking pace. At: which boundaries breathe. Every change plays at once and stays with the book.
Hide: punctuation off the screen, no breathing. The pauses still time themselves.
Options
Flip: Swap between Sans and Serif typeface for the display.
Red: Red filter mode reduces blue light and shifts to a warm, focused palette.
Look: Classic, or Handheld, the February lexROM's console face: A plays and pauses, B stops or skips back a sentence, and two lights by the logo show power and playing. Your pick stays in this browser.
Back arrow: a tap steps back one word; hold it to skip back to the start of the sentence, and again to the one before.
Side: in Chunk mode, lifts or dims the words beside the centre one.
Bright: Adjust screen brightness up or down.
ROM: a cartridge carries its own baked timing. On, the reader plays it. Off, the reader times every mark from its own table.
Flow: the river speed. Dialogue runs a little faster, dense prose a little slower, and the room warms and cools with it. Off, every passage runs at your wpm.
Rest: every 20 minutes of reading, the words stop for 20 seconds while you look at something 20 feet away, then carry on by themselves. Skip ends it early.
Hour: a reading session. Your speed climbs 75 wpm over an hour of reading, too slowly to notice, then the session ends and the speed goes back to where it began. A tap on + or - moves the starting speed.
Light: a flash at the edge of the screen while the words play, 40 or 60 times a second, in amber, green (515 nm) or red (660 nm). It starts off every time. How it looks (Light, Color, Glow) is part of the breathing set and stays with the book. A screen shows a flash rate only up to half of how often it draws: 60 a second needs a 120 Hz screen.
Library: in Shelf, free books from Project Gutenberg. Search by title or author, or tap a topic; Picks and Most read wait when you open it. Tap a book, then Read original. My books holds what you have read, with your place kept.
Remix: on a book's card, pick up to six modes (Transform, Play, Sharpen, Restructure), a length, and Young adult or Adult, then Remix. Chapter one is ready to read in moments; the rest arrive while you read and follow on where you are. Every remix goes on the shared shelf, free for anyone. Choose your own stops at a choice: pick one and the next part is written and reads straight on.
Remixes: in Shelf, every remix anyone has made, newest or most read, free to read. Adult remixes show only while Adult is on. At a choice, a path someone already took opens at once.
Donate: the cup button by Opts. Genus is free, with no limit on reading and no paywall. If it helped you, a donation keeps it running and makes more services like it possible. Every donation goes to CASH (cashvalues.org) and feeds its mission in the real world. It is never required. The same line sits at the foot of Remixes and once at the end of each story.
What Genus keeps: no account and no name. Your books and your place stay in this browser. For the daily remix count the server keeps a scrambled form of a random id from this browser and of your connection's address, for 7 days, and nothing else. Remixes you make go on the shared shelf without your name.
Shelf: what you have loaded waits here with its place kept. The arrow saves a text as a .lexrom cartridge.
Bring a page in
Load: a text, an .epub, a .pdf, a web page saved as .html, or a .lexrom cartridge. PDFs keep their outline as chapters and drop running heads and page numbers.
Paste a link: a web address in the paste box is fetched as readable text (needs a connection).
Bookmarklet: drag Send to lexROM to your bookmarks bar. On any article, tap it: the page's text opens here.
Share: on a phone with lexROM installed, share a page, a text, an .epub, or a .lexrom to it from the share sheet.
Install: the Install button in Opts appears when your browser offers it. Installed, lexROM works with no connection.
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Shelf
Nothing shelved yet. Paste or load a text. It waits here.