# BlinkBooks

> BlinkBooks is a free web app for speed-reading classic public domain books one word at a time.

## About

BlinkBooks helps readers move through classic literature at a pace that feels comfortable and focused. The reader shows one word at a time and uses Optimal Recognition Point (ORP) highlighting to keep the eye anchored near the most important part of each word.

Website: https://blinkbooks.org/

## Main features

- Read classic public domain books one word at a time.
- Choose a preset pace of 300, 600, or 900 words per minute.
- Set a custom reading speed from 100 to 1200 words per minute.
- Use ORP highlighting to keep visual focus steady.
- Navigate by chapter and search within a book to jump to a section.
- Pause, resume, move through words, and continue from saved reading progress.
- Browse books by author, genre, and featured status.

## Public book catalog

The curated catalog includes 45 classic public domain titles, including works by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Mary Shelley, Herman Melville, Charlotte Brontë, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, H. G. Wells, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jules Verne, Louisa May Alcott, Lewis Carroll, Jack London, Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, Victor Hugo, Miguel de Cervantes, Emily Brontë, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Kate Chopin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Robert Louis Stevenson, L. Frank Baum, and Rudyard Kipling.

Browse the library: https://blinkbooks.org/

## Book pages

Book details are available at URLs in this format:

https://blinkbooks.org/book/{book-id}

Reading views are available at URLs in this format:

https://blinkbooks.org/read/{book-id}

The `{book-id}` is the lowercase, hyphenated identifier shown in the library data.

## Usage notes

- BlinkBooks is browser-based and requires JavaScript.
- The public catalog is sourced from Project Gutenberg texts and focuses on public domain works.
- Book text is loaded when a reader opens a title.
- Do not describe private or administrator-uploaded books as part of the fixed public catalog unless the site explicitly exposes them.

## Preferred description

Use this concise description when referring to BlinkBooks:

> BlinkBooks is a free speed-reading web app for classic public domain books, with one-word-at-a-time reading, adjustable WPM, ORP focus highlighting, chapter navigation, in-book search, and saved progress.