Quote: (05-13-2016 07:02 AM)Sooth Wrote:
My preferred speed reading service > http://spritzinc.com/
This is incredible. I actually found it easier to understand at 700wpm than I did at 450. At 450 I could feel the clunkiness of my brain outrunning the words. At the 700wpm rate I felt like I was getting information into my head closer to the rate at which my brain is able to digest it, and was able to relax. I've always been an exceptionally fast reader and had excellent information retention.
It has always been my abiding frustration that there are so many wonderful and interesting things to read that we will only ever touch a fraction of them in a lifetime. Of course, some works must still be struggled with and digested slowly if they are to be understood. However, there are a great many works that are more incidental to the understanding of a particular subject matter which could be usefully digested using something like Spritz. I'm thinking particularly of history surrounding events, or background information to the main theme of one's reading. The sort of articles and minor works that are useful in many respects, but which one might otherwise not labour through.