I took a course, but I had to bring my own book. I finished the book for the course the first night.

It works well for fiction and I can read 2000 wpm with good comprehension, faster if I am just looking for certain material. Obviously you can't read and comprehend highly technical material at this speed.

Mostly based on reading the whole line at once. You start with fairly narrow material like a newspaper column and work your way up to a book page.

You (as a child) learn to read by sounding out words, and many people still read by imagining sounding them out in their heads. You have to absorb them as graphical symbols not mentally-sounded ones, and move past words to line-at-a-time. If the text is too wide for your field of view, try to take it in two glances or try to absorb phrases (use the punctuation).

There are formal techniques for it, taught in courses, but you have to keep practicing. Easy to fall into old habits.

Do you recall what book this is, or can you recommend any?

This is how I read and thus why it takes me a zillion years to finish books. I pretty much read at the speed that audiobooks are read. It's great for good fiction, sucks for everything else.

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It was years ago. The course material was a handout, bound in a folder; I don't have it anymore. It was supposed to be similar to the Evelyn Wood method. The "practice book" for the course was "Travels with Charley," an author travels around the country with his dog. But that didn't teach the method.

So, the course was a few sessions of reading a section of the handout to "relearn how to read," practice on "Travels" and take a comprehension quiz.

My high school actually had a summer school course on this. I took sailing which is why I was really there, and speed reading as a lark since I was a skeptic, but if it worked, great!

Anyway, they used some specialized projectors to teach technique. It worked to an extent, but I didn't feel enough to really matter. I sort of became self-taught after that, and can be quite fast. But for novels I don't believe they are written, or paced, for that sort of reading. I enjoy them more at a more tempered, narrative pace, which is after all how the authors write them. In college I would go over study materials quickly, but then slowly again over important passages for emphasis anyway. I still will read news copy, magazine articles, or internet drivel :) at the faster clip. I don't know my speed, but I could get through a 300 page book in an hour or hour and a half if I wanted, but usually get a more enjoyment out of it taking two or three hours.

If anyone has ever watched the NFL Films Game of the week (which is a time compressed version of the game editing out all but the plays themselves and a few replays) versus the game in real time, you know the difference I am talking about. One is certainly faster, and you don't miss much of the substance, but it isn't the same experience at all.

I never really understood the point of it. I usually like to reflect on what im reading. I could fast forward a movie and come up with some kind of plot summary but it definitely wouldn't be enjoyable.

I want to be able to read faster. Advice?
 

Hello, I love to read, I just don't read very fast. Any books,advice that you have found useful? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

I read horrendously slow, but I don't have any problems with it.

I read somewhere that people who read slower tend to absorb more atmosphere and character, whereas people who read faster tend to absorb more plot details. I'd agree with this because I remember the feelings that certain books and stories give me and don't remember plots well at all.

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Hey I think to speed up in reading , you should read more do more practice . And while you are reading you should grasp the main idea instead of the details.