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Is there an explanation of what a "beelinereader" is? Their website is heavy on the selling and lacking on the details and I'm not installing something blindly.

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The website describes it and demonstrates it in the text itself. It is the use of color gradients in text that wrap from the end of one line to the beginning of the next. This technique is popular as a speed reading tool and as an accommodation for people with ADHD and dyslexia.

The website doesn't demonstrate it on the "front" page. But the effect is so subtle I didn't even notice it on the "individual"'s page, probably due to a color display limitation of a laptop screen.

I would have put a "side-by-side" comparison of the same text on pages like this to make it more prominent--one with the beeline effect and one without.

It rotates font color among successive sentences.

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