I'm an avid reader and am in the process of trying to increase my reading speed and my reading comprehension. There is an online resource called Acereader that i'm using to do that; it does things like flashing words across the screen at a certain speed to test recall, RSVP with larger passages to increase speed/comprehension, and eye exercises to help with fixation. But what is really helpful is the passages at the end of each section that you read and answer questions to check your comprehension - it takes your WPM average and comprehension score from that and then increases or decreases your base WPM based on how you did.
Now i'm not looking to make a speed reading application, but I just wanted to provide some background. What i find helpful is the end part that tests reading comprehension. However, the range of texts is narrow. I've found this to be the case with other reading comprehension sites as well. My question is: Could you create an application that takes in the text of ANY book/passage of text whether its fiction, non-fiction, bibliography, news article, etc and spits out multiple choices questions, true/false questions and even open ended discussion questions that could stimulate reading comprehension for the reader?
How hard would that be to program? Could a script be used or would it need manual input for each individual book/passage of text? I tried using ChatGPT to test this with a book I'm currently reading but it can't directly take verbatim passages from a copyrighted text(makes sense). Could there be a work around with this using an app like Libby where you can borrow books digitally from the library?
Really looking for feedback. Not necessarily looking to make money on an app, but as someone who loves to learn I would love to use something like this to really help take in what I've read.
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