Sorry, You Can’t Speed Read

OUR favorite Woody Allen joke is the one about taking a speed-reading course. “I read ‘War and Peace’ in 20 minutes,” he says. “It’s about Russia.”

The promise of speed reading — to absorb text several times faster than normal, without any significant loss of comprehension — can indeed seem too good to be true. Nonetheless, it has long been an aspiration for many readers, as well as the entrepreneurs seeking to serve them.

I seem to remember at school there were extra curricular lessons in speed reading. Several boys claimed to be speed readers.

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When i was at school, some students would remember the whole books without thinking. There is no shortcut to be wise.

just read groups of words instead of singular words… it aint that tough,

like phrases…

noun to verb… then everything else

or just read the noun and the verb… forgo the details

I was always getting in trouble in grade school because I would finish reading well before everyone else and the teacher thought I was goofing off. Very frustrating and one of the reasons I hated school so much.

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