How to Read Faster and Better: How to Get Everything You Want from Anything You Read as Fast as You Can Think: The Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics Progr

by Franklin J. Agardy

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671246909
• ISBN13: 9780671246907
• Release Date: September 1981
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Simplifed Book on Speed Reading but effective

This book was published in 1981 and works to improve the readers reading speed. The book is formatted with on 8 words per line with very large margins. This method is used by many speed reading books so the reader can read passages rapidly and improve reading with only one or two fixations per line like a newspaper column. As for reading books it's not very helpful. The first couple of chapters tells the story of Evelyn Wood and how she discovered the technique to speed read without the add of machines to set the pace. By using hand movements and not speaking the words in your head your speed should increase about 3 times your normal speed. Chapter on improving comprehension by asking questions and mind mapping. A guide sheet to use to preview a book. Previewing, Speed reading and Post-viewing are the main points of the system called the Multiply Reading Process. You can get through the book in a couple days. It's a very basic speed read book and only has very few test materials ( 2001: A Space Odyssey book version. Evelyn Wood is a very good system to learn speed reading. It's was the first.

A great first step in learning to speedread

I first found this book in 1991 and it did nothing short of change my life. It is a great first jumping in point of your quest to speedread. It is a very easy read and you will increase your reading speed just minutes into the 3rd chapter. I now read over 200 books every year and I consider this book the foundation of that ability. You will need to "graduate" this book and move on to another book if you want to take your reading to hyper-speed levels. I highly recommend this book.

Easy to read

This book is thin compared to other books available in the market. I just took 2 hours to finish the book as the methods taught are straightforward and easy to apply. Moreever, not all the materials need to be read. The first 2 chapters talks about some achievements of the pioneer in speed reading, etc. The first few pages of every chapter typically spell out the problems faced in reading and the gist comes in in the middle of the chapter. My advice for readers is to skip the aboves and go straight into the methods.