I love Zap Reader.  What is it?  Well the site says,

“ZAP Reader is a web based speed reading program that will change the way you read on your computer… There is nothing to install, it works with most popular browsers, and it’s totally free!”

I’m having a hard time with my eyesight lately but I have a TON to read for my studies.  Zap Reader has helped a lot.  I wish they had a mobile version or an iPhone app but they don’t… I sent an email to the developer requesting one though.

In the meantime, I have come up with a workable solution:

Create a bookmarklet on iPhone Safari browser:

1. Go to zapreader.com in the iPhone browswer.
2. Press the + button then “Add Bookmark” and “Save.” (Safari won’t allow you to edit the url here so we have to come back and fix it.)

3. Copy the following text:
javascript:location.href='http://www.zapreader.com/reader?URL='+encode URIComponent(location.href);

(If you can’t copy it on your iPhone, email it to yourself and copy it there.)

Go to your iPhone email and copy that text.
5. In Safari, press the bookmark icon then the edit button. Select the Zap Reader shortcut that you just made.  Replace the zapreader.com url with the bookmarklet url that you just copied.  Press done until you return to your browser.

To use the Zap Reader bookmarklet on the iPhone:
1. Go to the page you want to read.
2. Press the bookmark icon then the Zap Reader bookmark.
3. Turn your iphone to landscape then ’stretch’ and move the page so that the text will fill the screen.  Press play.