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- Modern society moves at an incredible speed.If you're not careful, it is easy to feel like you are falling behind while your friends, coworkers, and close family seem to be learning and growing.Perhaps you have always struggled to read quickly, which has put you off reading and educating yourself.Or maybe you can read quickly but struggle to comprehend much of the content you consume and therefore struggle to retain it.Well, not for much longer!Modern Speed Reading is a must-read for anyone interested in learning how to inhale and absorb written content and improve their speed, retention, and comprehension.This book will teach you everything you need about reading that you should get taught in school.It will show you how to form new positive reading habits, read faster, and reap the rewards of developing these skills.Inside Modern Speed Reading, discover: ● the benefits of speed reading.
- Author(s): Jimmy McMaster
- 126 Pages
- Education, General
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Book Synopsis
Modern society moves at an incredible speed.
If you're not careful, it is easy to feel like you are falling behind while your friends, coworkers, and close family seem to be learning and growing.
Perhaps you have always struggled to read quickly, which has put you off reading and educating yourself.
Or maybe you can read quickly but struggle to comprehend much of the content you consume and therefore struggle to retain it.
Well, not for much longer!
Modern Speed Reading is a must-read for anyone interested in learning how to inhale and absorb written content and improve their speed, retention, and comprehension.
This book will teach you everything you need about reading that you should get taught in school.
It will show you how to form new positive reading habits, read faster, and reap the rewards of developing these skills.
Inside Modern Speed Reading, discover:
● the benefits of speed reading.
● how to form new positive reading habits.
● small improvements you can make to become a faster reader.
● visual and mental techniques to improve your reading.
● ways to consume content while speed reading.
Say goodbye to struggling through books for months and say hello to more content and information than you have ever experienced.
Grab a copy of Modern Speed Reading today!
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Kirkus Review
MODERN SPEED READING
Learn to Inhale and Absorb Written Content and Improve Speed, Retention, and Comprehension
Jimmy McMaster
DTS Publishing (124 pp.)
$10.95 paperback ISBN: 9798987533352
April 19, 2023
BOOK REVIEW
McMaster presents a program for enhanced reading speed and comprehension.
The author, an investor and writer, breaks down the process of reading and outlines a handful of
methods designed to increase reading speed and efficiency. He astutely acknowledges the huge role
reading plays in our society-studies have found that the average person is spending more time than
ever reading every day-Americans were found to spend about five hours a day reading (averaging only
16 minutes of daily reading for pleasure). People are swamped with emails and links in their
newsfeeds as workplaces require employees to process more and more material. McMaster wants to
stress to his more conscientious readers that the kinds of speed-reading he's advocating do not
amount to skimming. The methods discussed here are not to be thought of as "cheating"; the author
asserts that these approaches, based on both science and common sense, strengthen the very process
of reading. Some of his advice is based on research data, such as the number of eye movements
required to read a standard page of prose (as many as 48,000 such movements for a 200-page book).
He also discusses the concept of "eye span," which is developed over the first few years of school
and refers to the number of letters or words a person can see at one time. Increasing eye span, he
writes, involves a process called "grouping," in which the reader learns to take in standard
phrases at one glance: "The trick is to get your brain and eye to recognize 'at your earliest
convenience, ' or any phrase you like, as one so-called character." McMaster also proposes using a
"tracker" of some kind-a card, a pencil, a finger-to draw the gaze steadily down the printed page.
These practices (like the rest of his advice) are designed to bring the reading process completely
under the reader's control.
The pace throughout is necessarily brisk and informative. Though there's a good deal of compelling
research-based insight into the "nuts and bolts" of how the reading eye extracts information from
the page, the main strength of McMaster's book is its practical approach to the activity itself
rather than an analysis of its mechanics, though his arguments for the benefits of reading text
laid out in multiple columns on a single page is intriguing. Most of his book is very different
from the kinds of short cuts most speed-reading plans offer-time and again, he insists on one core
demand: no multitasking. "If you aren't giving reading your full attention, you're not doing it as
well as you could be," he writes. "The better you keep your attention on your reading, the better
you read." The author also stresses the importance of making reading a routine and setting
gradually increasing reading goals (crucially, he urges his readers to refrain from subvocalizing,
avoiding "sounding out" words they're reading). McMaster delivers all of this in lean, no-nonsense
prose designed, fittingly, to be read and understood quickly. Readers at any skill stage will find
some engaging ideas and advice in these pages. A valuable collection of thought-provoking strategies
to strengthen reading muscles.