![]() ![]() Špaček’s illustrations encompass witty, full-page, full-color imaginings of the elves’ busy, messy world and cartoon renderings, in color and black and white, of the characters, their gadgetry, and more, on text pages. Within the authors’ clever, informational framework, faintly reminiscent of The Phantom Tollbooth (1961), Typo recounts how he set out, with a talking dung beetle as his guide, to find entropy’s master, the legendary Cog of Time, and stop the process of aging and disorder. Typo considered entropy to be the elves’ noble calling, he says, until the day his faith was shaken: During a field trip to a human bakery, his creative misspelling of a little girl’s name on her birthday cake made her cry. His best friend Skim excels at cocoa spilling (one page of the text in Štěpán’s inspired book design features a realistic cocoa stain). (And today’s built-in obsolescence, he enthuses, is a golden age for the elves: “never before has aging occurred at such speed.”) Typo’s specialty is mistakes in published works. The book’s lively, relatable narrator, Typo, a young elf in third grade at the Primary School for Aging Things, speaks directly to readers, explaining that all things inevitably become older, damaged, or lost thanks to the work of the entropic elves. ![]() Set in a wildly inventive world, “entropic elves,” invisible to humans, create disorder and chaos. edition of co-authors Klárová and Končinský’s book (translated by Oakland) is a don’t-miss for science-minded middle schoolers. What is entropy, and what would happen without it? Originally published in the Czech Republic, this new U.S. Verify that "Open SwiftRead, auto extract content" is set to "Alt+V" (or your desired shortcut).In this physics-themed fantasy, an elf’s quest to prevent entropy has unintended consequences. If the Alt+V shortcut doesn't seem to work: Visit your Chrome extension shortcuts at "chrome://extensions/shortcuts". This is to help me make SwiftRead the most helpful it can be! The analytics code cannot see anything you do outside the SwiftRead window, and it only records visits to SwiftRead and button clicks, nothing else.Ĭopyright SwiftRead. NOTE: SwiftRead uses analytics code, such as from Google Analytics, so that I can measure how many people are using the extension. ![]() Sign-up to the SwiftRead mailing list for updates and other goodies! SwiftRead is always in development: send me an email at with any bugs or features you would find helpful. I've always been a slow reader due to subvocalization it's not even an issue with SwiftRead and I can read over three times as fast as I did conventionally. SwiftRead has helped me pull up my test scores, and I am eternally grateful." With SwiftRead I can actually finish reading the online textbook material we're assigned, which I normally would have skipped. "I am partially dyslexic and pursuing my doctorate of pharmacy. Using this for only a week I now read at 500 WPM! Ace work." My baseline reading speed used to be around 230 WPM. "This is the first review I've ever written for a browser extension. Think of how much time you'd save every day! The average person reads at 200 words per minute using SwiftRead, you can easily train yourself to read at double the speed, 400 words per minute, or faster. SwiftRead helps you eliminate your inner voice that sounds each word out-known as "subvocalization"-and too much focus on the words themselves, so that you can read more visually, which means faster reading while maintaining comprehension. SwiftRead works by utilizing a visual technique called Rapid Serial Visual Presentation, or RSVP, used by the fastest speed readers in the world. The PRO version of SwiftRead comes with native support for speed reading PDFs, ePUBs, even Kindle books on Kindle Cloud Reader, as well as many other features to help you read faster and learn more. Or, select your text in the browser, right-click, and click "SwiftRead selected text". You can use SwiftRead to speed read whatever text you can copy-paste into SwiftRead. Use SwiftRead (formerly known as Spreed), the highest rated and most popular speed reading extension of its kind, to speed read through text in your browser! SwiftRead works on news articles, blog posts, and emails. Read two or three times faster, with SwiftRead. ![]()
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