It's nice to see this app for the uneducated masses, but the truth is that all along anybody can increase their reading speed by forcing their eyes to move over the words faster sans equipment. Even better, the equipment is already there, namely, your computer screen, the larger and well-backlit the better. By reading only onscreen one can use the paging and arrow keys to move the text past one's own eyes at any desired speed, allowing great volumes of reading to be done without moving the eyes. As a test to show the potential, try taking a large text file and fixing your eyes on the screen then paging it from top to bottom fast, too fast to read word by word. Even so, you will soon realize that you absorbed mucho because your unconscious mind absorbs all, and is already trying to sort it out. Now try reading the file again from bottom to top somewhat slower but still fast, and see if you can't sit down and give a talk on what's in it for a long time and fool even the professors. Now try reading it from top to bottom, jumping from section to section, speeding the text past your eyes and only going back to old fashioned word by word reading when your spirit moves you, usually difficult detailed sections, and you'll see how you're filling in a jigsaw puzzle and mastering and retaining far more than if you did it the old fashioned way by reading it linerally word by word or having it read to you aloud while you yawn. Reading done my way never bores you, never causes you to yawn, and is like riding a Harley in a cool stretch of highway, which you can do forever or until your eyes or back give out :)
Once you've read millions of words onscreen, you'll discover the cool power of not necessarily having to remember everything in detail, but only to remember where you can go to reread it for details, spurring your brain to expand to master a larger and larger database of text on the Internet that's available to your fingertips at will.
Now discipline yourself for years, find regular time to do it every day, and join my Historyscopers who absorb words by the tens of millions a year while creating a map of human history in their minds.
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It's nice to see this app for the uneducated masses, but the truth is that all along anybody can increase their reading speed by forcing their eyes to move over the words faster sans equipment. Even better, the equipment is already there, namely, your computer screen, the larger and well-backlit the better. By reading only onscreen one can use the paging and arrow keys to move the text past one's own eyes at any desired speed, allowing great volumes of reading to be done without moving the eyes. As a test to show the potential, try taking a large text file and fixing your eyes on the screen then paging it from top to bottom fast, too fast to read word by word. Even so, you will soon realize that you absorbed mucho because your unconscious mind absorbs all, and is already trying to sort it out. Now try reading the file again from bottom to top somewhat slower but still fast, and see if you can't sit down and give a talk on what's in it for a long time and fool even the professors. Now try reading it from top to bottom, jumping from section to section, speeding the text past your eyes and only going back to old fashioned word by word reading when your spirit moves you, usually difficult detailed sections, and you'll see how you're filling in a jigsaw puzzle and mastering and retaining far more than if you did it the old fashioned way by reading it linerally word by word or having it read to you aloud while you yawn. Reading done my way never bores you, never causes you to yawn, and is like riding a Harley in a cool stretch of highway, which you can do forever or until your eyes or back give out :)
Once you've read millions of words onscreen, you'll discover the cool power of not necessarily having to remember everything in detail, but only to remember where you can go to reread it for details, spurring your brain to expand to master a larger and larger database of text on the Internet that's available to your fingertips at will.
Now discipline yourself for years, find regular time to do it every day, and join my Historyscopers who absorb words by the tens of millions a year while creating a map of human history in their minds.
http://historyscoper.com/whatisahistoryscope.html
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