fast reader

[Skybird]

Interesting for texts at work, informational texts and such things. Lyric and entertaining fiction I would prefer in the old format: not even e-readers, but printed on paper.

http://www.springwise.com/read-300-p...0-minutes-app/

I could imagine that it becomes exhausting to the brain and stressful to the eye after some time when reading very long texts that way - right because you do not move the eyes, do not easily interrupt for a short brake, and always "stare".

[Wolferz]

Most people read by pronouncing each word in their mind. This is very slow because you are reading no faster than you can speak. Speed reading involves taking in whole sentences. I learned it in high school. It's not hard to do.

[Jimbuna]

Would be a bugga if you missed the meaning of a word or the place you were at/up to

[Sailor Steve]

That's pretty cool! I had no problem understanding the 500 words-per-minute box. On the other hand Jim has a point. What do you do when you don't understand a word?

In the end I'm with Sky. I still prefer to hold a book in my hands.

[vienna]

I also prefer an analog book to a digital "book". I tend to read non-fiction, history and such, and technical books. The need to go easily back and forth at will to revisit something I've just read or to look at notes in the back of the book (I much prefer it when the notes or annotations are at the botom of the page rather than collected at the back of the book)...

I am slightly dyslexic and the condition becomes more pronounced with fatigue. This one of the resons I have a bit of a struggle with algebra. I was fortunate that the Catholic school I attended as a child supplemented its funds by being a sort of a testing lab for new teaching methods. When it became known President Kennedy was a speed reader (Evelyn Wood Method, IIRC), the school became a testing ground for a new method whose name escapes me. The gist of the method was to view a word not as a colletion of letters to be sounded out mengtally, but, rater as an object or picture. We were trained by having the words flash by individually at increasing rates of speed, followed by entire phrases and sentences flashed by our eyes. I went from a mediocre reader to a very fast "speed" reader. In fact, I was the fastest reader in my grade, a feat not small for a dyslexic...

I also agree with the aspects of missing a word, losing one's place, and/or the diminishment of comprehension. It is one thing to read a book; it is another to really understand what you have rread...


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[Kazuaki Shimazaki II]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Interesting for texts at work, informational texts and such things. Lyric and entertaining fiction I would prefer in the old format: not even e-readers, but printed on paper.

http://www.springwise.com/read-300-p...0-minutes-app/

I could imagine that it becomes exhausting to the brain and stressful to the eye after some time when reading very long texts that way - right because you do not move the eyes, do not easily interrupt for a short brake, and always "stare".

I rather like E-readers (as you know, Skybird), and I can see how this can kind of work at least for a short time, but I prefer having at least a paragraph in front of me at once. Some paragraphs can be adequately absorbed with a single glance, while others need you to slow down and sometimes you might even want to look back a sentence. So it really depends and cannot be fixed to a certain speed.

[Wolferz]

We had the powered T-bars that moved from the top of a page to the bottom and you engulfed entire lines at once by broadening your field of view. It took practice but soon you could scan an entire book in no time and, amazingly, have better retention of the information.