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Read your pile of books twice as fast

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I often see "read faster" advice. I rarely see "eat that meal prepared by a Michelin starred chef in half the time" advice.

It depends why you are eating. Are you eating because you are just hungry and you are on the go. Fast food places are everywhere and they are doing very well. Or, maybe eating is an experience you like to savor. Say, a romantic dinner. Then, there is lots in between.

To go back to reading. If your goal it just acquire the information, well then reading=fast food perhaps (Well, I am not sure if reading fast solves the problem because the bottle-neck could be comprehension not the speed of reading the words). Or are you reading a novel on a vacation or poetry and enjoy slowly taking it in.

I'd like an app that helps me read twice as well. I'd settle for being able to remember twice as much of what I read.

As someone who "naturally" reads fast, I would love to know if this technique tops out at a certain level, or if no matter what your starting speed you'll be able to increase your reading speed the 30-300%

I already read at somewhere around 600WPM... if I could increase that into the 1200WPM range, I'm interested. If the technique tops off at 600 WPM... color me disinterested.

I'd like to start learning to read faster as well; however, I don't have an iPad, but an Android phone.

I found a few apps (https://play.google.com/store/search?q=speed+reading&c=a...), but I was wondering if someone has already tested some of these and can offer a recommendation?

You could spend a day writing a crude version of this or you could pay 3 quid for someone to write it for you. Open source weeps. Which brings me to the fact that there are already numerous programs that do this. Even one in python so you could run it on whatever.

Do you have any examples of these programs that you would recommend?

Somewhat interesting, it also seems like a very easy app to code.

(do you happen to know what kind of accent is that?)

Reminds me of spreeder.com (which is now apparently a "Reported Attack Site")

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