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3.25 AVERAGE
3.25 AVERAGE
informative
Would have been much better if I could have read it on Kindle instead of being constrained to tiny text within Libby
As a slow reader, I have been distraught over the pace of my reading. With limited time in a busy life, I picked this book up hoping to achieve more reading progress in a smaller amount of time. This book has some brilliant techniques and stretched the periphreial vision of your eyes to take in more words in a single glace. It trains your eyes and gives your focus an intense workout. But generally this book is incomplete. A major focus of this book is your WPM reading skills. Almost every excerise wants you to calculate your WPM (words in a passage / time = WPM). It is tedious and frustrating that the word counts are not included with the exception of the one passage where you learn the equation. That flaw is on top of the fact that you don't even learn to calculate your standard reading rate (prior to speed reading) until chapter 5 where it explicitly tells you to forget everything you just read.
This book was helpful until the point I could not look past my frustration any more.
This book was helpful until the point I could not look past my frustration any more.
Book is what it says, it teaches you the basics of speed reading. Pretty useful.
Really good advice, some pretty good exercises that are worth trying to do
Helped a little, though still struggle with comprehension.
DNF at 180\274 page
I think book is not that useful for helping me to increase my writing speed
I don`t think that I will finish it or may I will but not in the near future
I think book is not that useful for helping me to increase my writing speed
I don`t think that I will finish it or may I will but not in the near future
A great guide for speed reading for beginners. Includes explanations, practice exercises, pages for keeping track of your progress, eye exercises, and techniques for increasing your vocabulary. The occasional splitting of exercises between front and back pages, no word counts for calculating speed reading scores (you have to count the words yourself), and sometimes dull writing can lead to frustration or boredom, but it's pretty thorough in the techniques it describes. Plus, it will help you to read faster. Recommended.