Read With Speed: The Ultimate Speed Reading Guide to Quadruple Your Reading Speed in 1 Hour or Less!

By Sebastian Croft

The Secrets to Reading at Superhuman Speed

"...This book is the key to reading at four times your current speed and absorbing much more from everything you read..."

Most of us don’t realize it, but the way we were taught to read as children is far from the most efficient way of doing things. It was the easiest way to help you learn your letters, but in adulthood it’s a handicap that keeps you from reaching your full reading potential.

By ridding yourself of these impediments and discovering a whole new method of reading, you can triple your speed in a matter of days – and that’s just the start.

Shed the handicaps that are holding your reading speed back

In this book, you’ll find out what about your reading style is keeping you from absorbing the contents of every piece of writing that strikes your fancy. You’ll learn how to shed those handicaps and your reading speed will instantly start to increase.

Exercise your own reading equipment to boost your speed

You’ll find out how you can improve your own reading equipment – your eyes, your memory and your brain – in such a way that you can both see more words in the space of a minute and absorb their meaning as you do. You’ll learn:

• How to care for your eyes and keep them in top condition as you practice your reading
• How to exercise your eyes so that their muscles can take in more words at a time
• How to pre read a piece of text to help your mind comprehend what it’s seeing
• How to set up your reading space to give your brain the optimum environment

Start speeding your reading instantly

Simply shedding the handicaps and honing your equipment will improve your reading speed, but you will also begin a daily exercise practice that will improve both your speed and your comprehension. Not only will you increase the number of words you are reading, you’ll also take away more information to store in your knowledge banks.

Become more flexible in your reading

In this book, you’ll discover that reading a book from cover to cover is not always the best way to go about it. Using speed reading techniques, you will find out how to take away exactly the information you were looking for. You’ll learn methods such as:

• Flexible reading, skipping over the unnecessary sections and focusing on what’s important
• Hot spot reading, finding the key pieces of information on the page
• Recall enhancement, remembering the parts of the text that really matter

Discover a whole new world of reading

From the moment you put down this book, the world will open up to you. So much of human knowledge is laid out in the books, magazines, newspaper articles and web pages we encounter every single day.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Publishdrive
• Release date: Jan 4, 2022

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Introduction

A cursory glance at any local public library will tell you something important right away. There are so many millions of books in existence, stretching back into the mists of history and still being written today, that no single human being could ever hope to work through them all in a lifetime. That’s not even to mention the magazines, journals, essays and the wealth of information on the internet.

And while it’s unlikely that you picked up this book because you’re hoping to remedy that fact and start making your way through every word ever written, you are here because you wish you could read more material, more quickly and with more efficiency.

Improving your reading speed can impact your life in many more ways than you might realize. The ability to absorb more information than you can at this moment means a greater capacity to research reports and paper; the ability to master new skills and topics more quickly; the opportunity to widen your knowledge base on a daily basis; and much, much more.

Speed reading saves you time, allowing you to locate the information you need much more quickly and grasp the main point of a piece of material without having to focus on every word. It allows you to broaden your sources, picking up more books, papers and journals than you would otherwise have dared to.

It also allows you to read with a critical eye, paying attention to what’s useful to you and filtering out the information that either is not useful or does not ring true, ignoring it completely as you continue through the material.

You’ve picked up this book for one of a few reasons. Either you’re a slow reader and it frustrates you when you’re given new material to work through; you can never remember what you’ve read once you get to the end; you feel like you’re not comprehending the material you read; or you simply have a yearning to improve your reading and get millions more words under your belt.

No matter you reason for wanting to read more quickly, the techniques we’re about to examine will help you do just that. By the time you’ve finished practicing and mastering these methods, you’ll be able to work through a piece of material at speeds you never thought possible.

You’ll also find that, when you reach the end of the material, you understand and can recall more details than you ever could before. Every aspect of reading will be improved for you, from the time it takes you to the rewards you reap for doing it.

We’ll get started by looking at what exactly speed reading is and why it’s the best skill you’ll ever decide to learn.

Why Do We Read So Slowly?

It’s said that any literate human being cannot actually help but read. When you see a road sign while you’re driving, if you happen to glance over a friend’s shoulder at their notepad, when your eyes pass over the front page of a magazine – whether or not you want to read those words, you will.

Reading is such an ingrained skill, in fact, that it’s almost impossible to make it through a single day without a need to read something. Reports at work, papers at school, recipe instructions at dinner time, even the listings on your television when you settle down to relax. Words are everywhere, and the speed at which you make your way through life is thus dictated at least in part by how quickly you can read and understand them.

However, reading is not, contrary to how it might feel, an ability that comes naturally to you. We as a species have not always had language and it was many thousands of years before we translated that ability from speaking into the written word.

As experts believe that we have only had an alphabet for a few thousand years of our history, there is no reason to believe we have had the time to evolve our brains to be natural readers. In other words, you do not have a dictionary stored in your brain. When you read, you must input the words from scratch and then store them, memorizing their meanings one by one.

Most people read at a speed somewhere around 200 to 400 words per minute.