Salient Reader

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Focus-friendly reading

Read without losing the line.

Saccadic reading supports the eye's natural jumps across text by adding visual anchors inside words. Those anchors can make dense pages easier to scan, especially for readers who benefit from stronger focus cues, calmer backgrounds, or paced reading.

Live reading challenge Plain text vs salient text

Do not believe us, see for yourself. Read the plain paragraph first and stop the timer when you finish. Then read the salient version and compare your time.

Plain paragraph

At the edge of the city, where the evening buses sighed beside the river, Mara found a letter folded into the pages of an old library book. It did not contain a secret map or a dramatic confession. Instead, it asked the reader to pause, breathe, and notice how every sentence becomes easier when the eye has somewhere gentle to land.

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Salient paragraph

At the edge of the city, where the evening buses sighed beside the river, Mara found a letter folded into the pages of an old library book. It did not contain a secret map or a dramatic confession. Instead, it asked the reader to pause, breathe, and notice how every sentence becomes easier when the eye has somewhere gentle to land.

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About us

Built by people interested in calmer, more accessible reading.

Salient Reader was created by Nadia Early and Mark Sun as an independent accessibility experiment. The project brings together focus-friendly design, document processing, and practical web tooling so readers can turn everyday text, Word files, PDFs, and presentations into a more guided reading experience.

Nadia Early

Nadia Early

Nadia co-created Salient Reader with an emphasis on inclusive presentation, clear user experience, and reader controls that support different visual preferences.

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Mark Sun

Mark Sun

Mark co-created Salient Reader with an emphasis on turning the reading concept into a working Cloudflare app with uploads, exports, storage, and AI-assisted output.

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