Books are losing the war for our attention. Here’s how they could fight back.

Tecnology is changing our lives in all aspects, including the experiece of reading.
The number of non-book readers has increase. Everyone is now a days reciving e-mails and text mesages that make our smartphones chirp or vibrate, and looking to their social networks accounts, but, what happen with books? They just stay silently on shelves, and we are forgeting them when they have contained human knowledge for generations.

Trying to find the way to make people read again, the fact of linking videos, photos or graphics to the stories has been considered, but how can you do that with, for example, Shakespear?; so they had invented Spritz.

Spritz it's an app which makes reading easier. Words flash rapidly, which makes you hold your attention in whats you are reading. It also helps you to read faster because, when you read a normal book, your brain has to think where to focus you eyes so you are able to read the words; with this app, that time you were waisting doing that, you use it to read because words always flashes in the same place, so your eyes doesn't have to move at all. This helps you to read 320 words per minute aproximately, when with the normal lecture you read 230 word per minut aproximately. Many people has already been registered to this app.



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