Triple Your Reading Speed

by Wade E. Cutler

Book Overview

This fourth edition of Triple Your Reading Speed does just that -- with self-quizzes and tests that make it fun and simple to acquire the skills that will give you an edge in school and on the job. The renowned Acceleread Method helps you to break old habits that may be slowing you down, and develop strategies for increased comprehension in less time, with eye exercises to control and expand vision drills for practicing pacing and...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743475763
• ISBN13: 9780743475761
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Good book, will triple your reading speed with work.

I read this book over six months ago and within two weeks of reading it I had already tripled my reading speed from the original 150 words per minute to 450 words per minute. Some of the techniques it ask you to practice seem very impractical though, for example you are expected to be able to read each line of a page by just glancing at the middle. The exercises that taught you how to do this were very frustrating, I spent almost two hours per day trying to practice this for about a week, then It became to frustrating and I just gave up and moved on in the book. The next technique the two-step technique was much more helpful and is what I have used to succesfully triple my reading speed. Unless you devote more time to the read a whole line at once technique though this book will never enable you to read faster then triple your current reading speed, if that is not enough for you then suggest you look elsewhere. Since reading this book though I have digressed back to a reading speed of about 150 words per minute, mainly because it is more fun just to read at my regular pace.Overall I'd say this is a descent book which will keep up it's promise of tripling your reading speed but there are definatly better speed reading books out there.

Top Notch Speed Reading Method

I have taken several speed reading courses with a variety of styles, or methods. This method identifies common slow-reading problems and presents easily applied techniques to overcome them. I did triple my reading speed in just 3 weeks and can now see the possiblity of doing that again and again. If you are interested in increasing your speed and are willing to spend a few minutes a day working at it, the information in this book will pay dividends you never thought possible. I strongly recommend it.

The best book I've seen on speed reading

I've gone through several books and programs for speed reading and they were usually very gimicky and didn't work. This book on the other hand was extremely helpful; it kept the speed reading goals at an obtainable level and contained many very helpful exercises to help you train your peripheral vision in order to read faster. Everything in the book is explained clearly and everything is very concise; many other programs are ninety percent transendental b.s. This reasonable sized book is all you need.

It does not tell you the magic solution.

If you are buying this book hoping for a certain magic solution to improve your reading speed instantly, you are wrong. It basically tells you how to train (I mean physically) your eyes to read in blocks. You need to practice, practice and practice as the author says.

Excellent results fast

I already read Evelynn Wood's and some other books on the subject, but my improvement wasn't very big with them. Most methods seemed impractical and the books where mostly praising of the benefits of being a fast reader. The methods described in this book gave much better results, and my speed seems to keep improving with time. This is the real thing.