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Speed Reading For Dummies (2009)

by Richard Sutz(Favorite Author)

3.14 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0470457449 (ISBN13: 9780470457443)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

For Dummies

review 1: 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 s... moretandard 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.
review 2: A very good source of information on speed reading and reading in general. All the concepts are explained very clearly, and are easy to pick up. This is probably one of the most user-friendly guides on the subject.The actual exercises are flawed, though. There are many points where you are asked to calculate words-per-minute for texts without knowing the word count. There are also many many points where I could answer most of the comprehension questions even without reading the text at all.So, in summary, an excellent information source, but a flawed learning tool. But still, maybe the best book I've seen on the subject. less

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