Just reading the example paragraph, I did feel at times speed was increased, but...

renato_casutt · on March 24, 2022

Yes I understand that. Optimal is then if you have set your individual reading setting with Bionic Reading.

And what you have to remember is that your brain has already absorbed the words. So your eye jumps back instead of gliding over the text.

However, this will turn off and you will find that you understand the text without having read every letter.

thanatos519 · on March 24, 2022

Have you considered tweaking the highlight length when the bold part is itself a complete word?

For example with 'theists', 'the' would be bold by default, but maybe bolding 'th' or 'thei' would result in less confusion.