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Some speed-reading advocates claim that with proper training (outlined in many popular books and YouTube videos) or the use of special apps, it's possible to increase your reading rate to 1,000 words ...

Forty years ago, Donald Homa, a professor of psychology at Arizona State University specializing in memory and the visual perception of linguistic stimuli, was contacted by officials at the American ...

Even if you keep up with high-speed reading, it's hard to feel the effects.In that state, it's difficult to continue every ...

My child reads so slowly...This is something I hear very often during parent-teacher conferences.I also hear it from students ...

There’s good reason to wish you could read faster. Not only do excellent book recommendations come out faster than you can note down the titles, more or less actually make it from cover to cover, but ...

Covers of new editions of books by Franz Kafka. (Photo: MICHAL CIZEK/AFP/Getty Images) “The prospect of speed reading—reading at an increased speed without any loss of comprehension—has undeniable ...

Readers ‘should be wary of promises to increase speed with no cost to comprehension’, say researchers Despite the wishes of all those of us with a teetering to-be-read pile, companies and apps that ...

Speed reading is about to have another popularity spike — one likely fueled by the recent announced of Spritz on the Galaxy S5. The speed reading feature will come included with some apps, and uses a ...

Some speed-reading advocates claim that with proper training (outlined in many popular books and YouTube videos) or the use of special apps, it’s possible to increase your reading rate to 1,000 words ...