fast reader

vienna · 03-06-14, 01:04 PM

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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03-06-14, 01:04 PM	#5
vienna Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Anywhere but the here & now... Posts: 7,726 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	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... <O> __________________ __________________________________________________ __