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I discovered this book while walking past my wife's dying Kindle. It flash on the screen and I gave it a try.
The book turned out to be great.
Knight did a great job packing value into the book and keeping focused.
I enjoyed learning about space reading and chunking to read faster. The other tips were helpful too.
I've read speed reading tips before and I've never seen one that talks about basic eye health. Advice like stretching your face, massaging your eyes, and taking breaks may seem basic, but it can be helpful in keeping your reading speed up.
If you want to increase your reading speed, I highly recommend this book. It's a quick read and has immediate actionable advice.
The book turned out to be great.
Knight did a great job packing value into the book and keeping focused.
I enjoyed learning about space reading and chunking to read faster. The other tips were helpful too.
I've read speed reading tips before and I've never seen one that talks about basic eye health. Advice like stretching your face, massaging your eyes, and taking breaks may seem basic, but it can be helpful in keeping your reading speed up.
If you want to increase your reading speed, I highly recommend this book. It's a quick read and has immediate actionable advice.
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This was an interesting read. I don't remember where I read it, but the only "speed reading" tip I knew was to read the first and last sentence of each paragraph. As I have way too many books on my TBR, I thought this might give me some great tips.
This book breaks down the different types of texts that you may be reading, and whether or not speed reading will work for it - for example, textbooks vs pleasure reading. As 99% of my reading is for pleasure, speed reading would not work. I still read on to see what was said.
Each chapter breaks down a different method to help you speed read. It gives you practice tips and examples of text to understand how to do it. While it was not easy for me to catch on to, as with anything in life it will be easier with the more practice that I do.
Thank you to the publisher for providing a free copy via NetGalley for review!
This book breaks down the different types of texts that you may be reading, and whether or not speed reading will work for it - for example, textbooks vs pleasure reading. As 99% of my reading is for pleasure, speed reading would not work. I still read on to see what was said.
Each chapter breaks down a different method to help you speed read. It gives you practice tips and examples of text to understand how to do it. While it was not easy for me to catch on to, as with anything in life it will be easier with the more practice that I do.
Thank you to the publisher for providing a free copy via NetGalley for review!
I love to read, and am always looking to increase my speed with any tricks I can find. In Speed Reading, Kam Knight breaks down some of the science of speed reading, some effective strategies, and practice drills to help you implement the strategies that work for you. I’m already almost doubling my page count in the same length of time!
This book is full of practical, easy to follow skills that build as the book progresses. I loved reading about the skills of reading spaces and chunking words together. Personally, expanding my periferal vision needs so much more work to further develop the skill of reading a whole line of text in a glance.
Along with teaching skills on how to read quickly, Knight also provides instructions on how to develop comprehension skills. What is the point of reading at the speed of light if you don't retain the information?
I really enjoyed this book. I read fairly fast, but not fast enough to read a 200 page book in an hour. I'm not at that level yet, but after reading this book, I know how to work toward that goal. I will likely revisit this book, hopefully work through it much faster and use it as a guide and reminder as I increase my speed reading skills throughout the year.
Along with teaching skills on how to read quickly, Knight also provides instructions on how to develop comprehension skills. What is the point of reading at the speed of light if you don't retain the information?
I really enjoyed this book. I read fairly fast, but not fast enough to read a 200 page book in an hour. I'm not at that level yet, but after reading this book, I know how to work toward that goal. I will likely revisit this book, hopefully work through it much faster and use it as a guide and reminder as I increase my speed reading skills throughout the year.
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Funny how I got this for free through BookSirens, cause I already read about 700-1000 words per minute. So I read this book in 40 minutes, which includes doing several of the exercises and subvocalizing quite a bit! I'm not interested in reading faster, but since this was such a short book, and I obviously get a lot of questions and comments about my reading speed, so thought I'd check it out.
There are a bunch of good tips and techniques in this. Some I already do but wasn't aware of, some I tried out and found helped, and some I just felt weren't interesting at all.
It also of course gives tips and exercises for comprehension, cause as it says; what's the point of reading if you don't remember it? There's even some exercises for your eye health at the end.
So I'd say this is pretty good, check it out if you want to increase your reading speed. I'll recommend it to those who comment on my reading speed in the future!
There are a bunch of good tips and techniques in this. Some I already do but wasn't aware of, some I tried out and found helped, and some I just felt weren't interesting at all.
It also of course gives tips and exercises for comprehension, cause as it says; what's the point of reading if you don't remember it? There's even some exercises for your eye health at the end.
So I'd say this is pretty good, check it out if you want to increase your reading speed. I'll recommend it to those who comment on my reading speed in the future!