SPEED READING IS A GIFT THAT YOU CAN GIVE TO YOURSELF You may know people who are able to read a newspaper in a few minutes, flip through yet thoroughly absorb a book in an hour, or effortlessly finish skimming a report before you even suspected they were done. Quite possibly you have thought that these people were born with a natural talent for speed reading that you do not possess. Nothing could be further from the truth. Speed reading actually consists of a series of simple skills that can be mastered and applied by anyone willing to take the short time and minimal effort needed to master these so-called “secrets” and “tricks.” Now they are no longer either secret or tricky—but completely comprehensible and available in the finest speed reading guide on the market today— SPEED READING MADE EASY “Readable and persuasive.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer “An excellent, self-improvement manual...by a specialist.”—Los Angeles Times “Examples and self-applicable tests are provided every step of the way...Even the reader who thinks his speed and grasp adequate will benefit.”—Saturday Review Syndicate “It is possible for anybody to read faster with increased pleasure and profit.”—San Francisco Call-Bulletin

Presents strategies and techniques designed to increase reading speed, and improve comprehension and retention of a variety of reading materials.

"Dramatically increase your reading rate, improve your comprehension, and remember what you read." -- cover.

Learn to: Increase your reading speed and comprehension Use speed techniques for any type of reading material Improve your silent reading skills Recall more of what you read The fun and easy way® to become a more efficient, effective reader! Want to read faster — and recall more of what you read? This practical, hands-on guide gives you the techniques you need to increase your reading speed and retention, whether you're reading books, e-mails, magazines, or even technical journals! You'll find reading aids and plenty of exercises to help you read faster and better comprehend the text. Yes, you can speed read — discover the skills you need to read quickly and effectively, break your bad reading habits, and take in more text at a glance Focus on the fundamentals — widen your vision span and see how to increase your comprehension, retention, and recall Advance your speed-reading skills — read blocks of text, heighten your concentration, and follow an author's thought patterns Zero in on key points — skim, scan, and preread to quickly locate the information you want Expand your vocabulary — recognize the most common words and phrases to help you move through the text more quickly Open the book and find: Tried-and-true techniques from The Reader's Edge® program How to assess your current reading level Tools and exercises to improve your reading skills Speed-reading fundamentals you must know Helpful lists of prefixes, suffixes, roots, and prime words A speed-reading progress worksheet Exercises for eye health and expanded reading vision Tips for making your speed-reading skills permanent

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#1 Speed Reading Book on Amazon for 2 Straight Years This book has quickly become the go to standard for rapidly improving reading speed. It offers simple tips to not only accelerate your reading, but comprehension and memory. Unlike other books that merely teach you to skim & scan, this book taps into your brain and eyes' amazing power to naturally read more words in a shorter time. Please Note There are a growing number of trolls and copycats on Amazon. They copy hard work of legitimate authors and post malicious reviews on their book to boost their own ranking. They don't take the time to understand a topic, only copy what others have written to make money. In fact, much of their content is taken directly from here as I've spent the last 15 years understanding how to optimize performance of the mind to enhance these areas & more. You will see that in the types of tips this book offers and how they are offered. In fact, it is the only speed reading book that presents practice drills at the end of every chapter, so by the time you get to the last page, you will have double or tripled your reading, learning, and memory of written information.

Every single day we receive a huge amount of information to read and we're expected to make sense of it all more than ever before. With access to countless facts, figures and opinions at the touch of a button, it’s easy to get lost in the constant flow of data. Brilliant Speed Reading shows you how to breeze through books, newspapers, textbooks, reports – whatever you need to read, however you want to read it. You will learn a simple yet powerful set of techniques that will build your reading speed, step by step, to at least double your current rate. Everything you learn will be reinforced by exercises and tips to ensure you get the most out of your new reading skills. Brilliant Speed Reading is structured so you can easily measure, progress and consolidate your learning – you will be asked to time how long it takes to read each chapter and to record your speed on a chart at the beginning. Each chapter has a quiz at the end to help cement knowledge and measure comprehension. Brilliant Outcomes · At least double your reading speed without loss of comprehension · Beat information overload at home and at work · Be able to read fast or slow – choose what works best for you