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[mafeki]

There's this site I've been using that's meant to help people learn to speed read. The average person who reads only one word at a time will read only at about 150 words per minute. http://www.duovelo.com/
I've only been using it since today and I got to say I think I noticed a significant increase in my reading speed and ease.

Just click on training at the top and give it a try. They got a option where you can put in your own text to practice reading and I've put a few SeattleTimes articles in there. I've been trying to read 3 words at 300 words per minute. It's weird at first but you'll notice the more you do it the more you'll start comprehending what's actually showing.
They call this speed reading but this is actually how people should be reading. Give Uncover reading a try also.

[Grandma Lynn]

That's what I should do! I have so many
books waiting to be read.

[mafeki]

You totally should give it a try there's a few people I know that struggle with reading I think it would really help them.
I read a thing once that some of the world fastest readers actually begin by reading two lines at once and connecting them together once they've finished the line, sounds really complicated.

[beenthereanddonethat]

It's even easier than that. Skip the filler crap like the decorations of a room, the look of the sun, moon and stars. Learn to stay with content.

[Grandma Lynn]

It's even easier than that. Skip the filler crap like the decorations of a room, the look of the sun, moon and stars. Learn to stay with content.

Sometimes descriptive words lead to the plot,
or just make it interesting to read the book.

[beenthereanddonethat]

It's even easier than that. Skip the filler crap like the decorations of a room, the look of the sun, moon and stars. Learn to stay with content.

Sometimes descriptive words lead to the plot,
or just make it interesting to read the book.

Yep until you become adept.

[kc26]

It's even easier than that. Skip the filler crap like the decorations of a room, the look of the sun, moon and stars. Learn to stay with content.

Sometimes descriptive words lead to the plot,
or just make it interesting to read the book.

Yep until you become adept.

I was thinking the same thing as grandma lynn. While I am not exactly a speed reader, I definitely read at two very different speeds. At work I am closer to speed reading since my goal is to gather as much information as possible as quickly as possible. Outside of work my goals are very different (usually), and I am reading more often for enjoyment. In these cases, the descriptive words and details help to create a better picture.

One thing I have always thought would be really fun would be to read a fiction book that has no pictures. Have your husband, wife, or a really close friend read the same book, and then separately either draw, or if you have no artistic abilities have an artist draw for you, a picture of some really important scene from the book. Then get together and compare your pictures and talk about the similarities and differences that you created in your mind.

When I was a kid, I use to think about all the things I saw ................ trees, houses, birds, whatever and wonder whether everyone else really saw them exactly the same way I saw them. You think about the color green. We all know what the color green looks like to us, but does it really look exactly like that to everyone else? OR ........... does green to you look different to someone else, but since you both consider what you see to be green there is agreement on the color despite the fact that you see it differently?

[Grandma Lynn]

You remind me of being color blind.
That I wouldn't like...I'm trying to remember
if our friend saw red or green as brown...
Bad for driving, have to remember which
color is on top!

Just thought of this, when I was a kid, all
we had were radio programs. That's when
you always used your imagination and
pictured everything that was said.

[mafeki]

I recently heard something or maybe it was something I read regarding this. It was saying males see shades differently then females, I'm more curious on how exactly they come to this conclusion not whether it's true or not. I've also heard you should try to read just the important stuff, that reminds me more of maybe somebody studying not speed reading. How do you know if it's important until you read it? Never really understood that, why not just read summaries of book it'd be basically the same thing.

[Grandma Lynn]

I know men see some things differently
than women, but colors? I want to know
how you would find out. Then again, do
I really want to know?
I imagine speed reading is helpful in
business. And at my house with all these
"have to read" books.