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Speed reading software

command line tool: speedread

install
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git clone https://github.com/pasky/speedread
cp speedread/speedread ~/bin

Yep, it's a ready to use (perl) program. Usage :

use
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speedread txtfile

This will start in 250 wpm mode, which is not actually a speedup, so try :

set speed
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speedread -w 500 txtfile

For some gain. Also you can adjust this with the [ and ] keys. Space will pause the reader. I would advise to put the line at eye-height which seemed to make a lot of difference for me. Stopping can only be done with ctrl-c it seems. But this does seem to mess up your terminal, always do

reset terminal
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stty sane

After a broken session. Or after the speedread script, change the function $SIG to

rest options
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$SIG{INT} = sub {
    print_stats;
    stty('cooked', 'echo', 'icanon');
    exit;
};

This reset the options (especially -icanon) back to it's original settings.

openspritz

git clone visit

But since this does not work out of the box, i leave it here as mentioned.

spritz-js

install spritz
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git clone https://github.com/richardtagger/spritz-js
sudo cp -r spritz-js /var/www/

And then browse to visit. Or visit this preinstalled version : spritz.

This one does work out of the box, but needs some tweaking to use it in your web site. I will...