fast reader

[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.