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tamarasbooknook's review against another edition
5.0
Great book with a wide range of sensible suggestions for improving reading speed and increasing recall. I was a little sceptical but there are several helpful methods and techniques to practice, as well as exercises to avoid eyestrain.
sincerely_leonix's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
2.75
Useful. But still caught myself falling back
jeanineyousoon's review against another edition
informative
fast-paced
2.25
Some helpful tips, but not very new. Skipped quite a bit of the book.
rdgit's review against another edition
5.0
"Speed Reading - Learn to read a 200+ page book in 1 hour" is a great book if you want to improve your reading skills.
All my life I have struggled with reading. I’m sure, not being able to read well was a detriment to my grades in school and for most of my life has prevented me from enjoying reading like I do now. I am 72 years old and until I was nearly 50 I could only read word for word and my comprehension was terrible. But twenty five years ago I picked up a workbook that taught me how to read faster. The technique was similar to the technique author, Kam Knight, uses in this book but Knight goes much further. Since I originally started reading faster with the help from that workbook I read, I continually regress to reading word for word. I will find I “read” pages without having any comprehension. Kam Knight realizes the habits the mind falls back upon and addresses every one of them including regression, fixation, daydreaming and more.
Reading this book has refreshed my speed reading and completely addressed my issues that might prevent me from reading to my potential. I have done a fair amount of research on speed reading before stumbling upon this book. I realize there are a number of approaches to reading faster and I’m sure some ways work for some people and some work for others. This book worked for me!
5 Stars for this book.
All my life I have struggled with reading. I’m sure, not being able to read well was a detriment to my grades in school and for most of my life has prevented me from enjoying reading like I do now. I am 72 years old and until I was nearly 50 I could only read word for word and my comprehension was terrible. But twenty five years ago I picked up a workbook that taught me how to read faster. The technique was similar to the technique author, Kam Knight, uses in this book but Knight goes much further. Since I originally started reading faster with the help from that workbook I read, I continually regress to reading word for word. I will find I “read” pages without having any comprehension. Kam Knight realizes the habits the mind falls back upon and addresses every one of them including regression, fixation, daydreaming and more.
Reading this book has refreshed my speed reading and completely addressed my issues that might prevent me from reading to my potential. I have done a fair amount of research on speed reading before stumbling upon this book. I realize there are a number of approaches to reading faster and I’m sure some ways work for some people and some work for others. This book worked for me!
5 Stars for this book.
unsympathizer's review against another edition
As someone who has been writing a thesis paper, I need to be reading a lot in a short time. This book seemed like potential solution. And it did have some great strategies, most notably reading “spaces” instead of words and chunking, as well as improving peripheral vision and visualization. One interesting tip was to hum or play music while reading to block your brain from reading out the words (which slows down reading considerably). I will need time to test these techniques before a rate this book, though it seems promising.
leonardoz's review against another edition
4.0
I want to thank BookSirens and the Author for giving me the opportunity to review this book.
As the author promises, this is a very compact publication designed to give you specific tools to speed up reading ability.
The book provides the elements to help increase reading speed with examples and exercises at the end of each chapter.
Personally I found the content interesting and useful. However, as I do most of my reading digitally in ebook format, I am not entirely clear on how to do some of the recommended steps…for example skimming content and illustrations easily. Nevertheless, I am trying to use the prescribed tools.
Overall, I think the book offers good value and will help readers improve their speed and processing of materials. I think perhaps lengthening the content by 10-20% might help clarify the tools a little more.
As the author promises, this is a very compact publication designed to give you specific tools to speed up reading ability.
The book provides the elements to help increase reading speed with examples and exercises at the end of each chapter.
Personally I found the content interesting and useful. However, as I do most of my reading digitally in ebook format, I am not entirely clear on how to do some of the recommended steps…for example skimming content and illustrations easily. Nevertheless, I am trying to use the prescribed tools.
Overall, I think the book offers good value and will help readers improve their speed and processing of materials. I think perhaps lengthening the content by 10-20% might help clarify the tools a little more.
livembry's review against another edition
I already consider myself to be a fast reader, but there were a few useful tips and exercises in this book that will help me take it up a notch
tankedbard's review against another edition
5.0
I would recommend this book to anyone that wants to learn the skills needed to read faster. I enjoyed the simple techniques covered in the book, and the author includes some very good practice exercises at the end of each chapter. Similar to other skills in life, practice makes progress.