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What do you think about speed reading?
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Jan 12, 2019 01:13AM
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I read slow and very slow books on other languages
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1) Speed Reading: 5-10 min speed reading training by Readlax Chrome Extension with 150% reading speed every morning. (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/de...)
2) Brain Games: Play Brain Games 5-10 min twice a day, morning and evening. (https://www.readlax.com/)
3) Reading: Read 1-hour non-fiction book every day.
Hello! Actually, I'm not interested in speed reading.While I agree that for non-fiction books "skimming" through book to get the most useful info can be much faster.
But I try to read the books where the percentage of useful info is very high so I just perceive it. :)
And when reading fiction it's strange to speed things up.
I think having a strategy of how many chapters you want to complete per day can help you read your book faster. I tried reading along with Readlax and it's not very easy to keep pace with or it with the same pace of my speed. It also prevents me to process things in my mind well and just makes it harder for me to digest reading materials. It helps if you want to skim read, but if you like to digest information without speed reading, just go with your pace.
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While I agree that for non-fiction books "skimming" through book to get the most useful info can be much faster.
But I try to read the books wh..."
"skimming" is not speed reading. Speed reading is a special skill to read a chunk of words at one glance, increasing visual span and peripheral vision. Real speed reading is not about losing information but about increasing comprehension while reading with bigger speed. Human brain like and need to work with information with bigger speed, it's boring for him to work with text information with standard speed
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It's not comfortable to read with Readlax Chrome Extension but it's a good tool to use it not for reading but for 5-10 min training with reading speed in 40-50 % more than your standard reading speed. We forget that we increase our reading speed when we are studying in school and college but forget about speed after that. https://readlax-reading.quora.com/Ave...
Not sure I see the point for anything that is not "cram as much as possible the day before exam".For non-fiction books, if information density is not terrible, raw reading speed is usually not a bottleneck. For fiction books, it might be but I read fiction for fun purposes only, so if it makes reading less comfortable, it's a big no. Where it is a bottleneck and improvement is desired is when I read stuff in the language I'm learning, but it's an entirely different topic.
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For non-fiction books, if information density is not terrible, raw reading speed is usually not a ..."
Speed reading skill is not for fiction books, in this case, speed doesn't matter at all, you read for pleasure. Training of reading speed has a big role in self-education, collection ideas, getting knowledge and professional growing. All CEOs read at least 50-60 books per year. Warren Buffett read 500 pages every day :)
