RSVP stands for rapid serial visual presentation: words are shown one at a time, in sequence, at a single fixed point on the screen.
When you read normally, your eyes do not glide along a line. They jump — roughly four times a second — pausing briefly to take in a word, then leaping to the next. Those jumps are called saccades, and the pauses between them are fixations. Every jump is a small opportunity to lose your place, re-read a line, or drift off.
RSVP removes the jumping. Because each word appears in the same spot, your eyes stay still and the text comes to you. What is left is the reading itself.
Wordema is an RSVP reader for public-domain classics. Three things are yours to set:
How many words arrive per minute. Swipe up and down while reading to change it.
How softly each word fades into the next, from crisp to dreamy. Swipe left and right.
How long the reader breathes at commas and full stops — the rhythm of the sentence, separate from its speed.
There is also a gold anchor letter in each word. Resting your eyes there lets the word build itself around a single point.