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Summary: Clear understanding about dimensions of reading, and works!
Review: After reviewing several books about speed reading --some of them very expensive--, I found it. And I strongly recommend it. The book allows you to understand and to train separately three different dimensions of reading: - Speed, understanding and recalling. Contrasting with another "speed reading in 5 minutes" offers, this book does not sell you miracles: you need to practice and practice to speed up your reading skills. as a minus, I personally found the chapter about Internet useless. Do we need to read a complete chapter to learn that "Much of Internet reading is prereading or scanning"?
I don't think so. If I would recommend a book to start with speed reading, this will be the first one.
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Summary: Excellent book for speed reading
Review: Among all the speed reading books, I think this book is one of the best. It's definitely works for me because it's simple and concise. All you need to do is follow the steps that the book said and practice as often as you can. I was a 212 word per minute reader with 60% comprehension skill, after I followed the 3-2-1 practice as stated in the book, I've litereally increasing my speed reading to 1200 wpm with 56% comprehension skill. My husband read this book a year earlier, and now his speed reading is 3000wpm with 80% comprehension skill. So I am stilling working on it. It's a great book though. You shouldn't miss this one if you want to improve your speed reading.
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Summary: Great for starters
Review: I have only just begun my quest for practical speed reading techniques, but already I have seen dramatic improvements (at least doubled my previous reading speed). This book makes it easy for a motivated individual to get started at reading faster. I gained the most out of the 3rd and 4th chapter and got very little out of the others. In the 3rd chapter he identifies the major hindrances to fast reading. In the 4th chapter he offers a technique to help overcome some of the problems mentioned in the previous chapter.
Those two chapters opened me up to a whole new approach to reading. The next evening I went on to read "The Evelyn Wood 7-Day Speed Reading & Learning Program" by Stanley D. Frank and I highly recommend it as a follow-up to Moidel's book. In fact, I felt like Moidel's book was a condensed and slightly modified version of the Evelyn Wood Program. I always used to label myself as a slow reader - about 160wpm.
I easily doubled my reading speed within the first 2 days alone after reading Moidel's book (with practice - not his drills, though - instead I just practiced reading in groups of words without vocalizing). I am reading even faster now that I incorporated some of what I learned from the Evelyn Wood Program (the book). Of course speed varies with the material being read, but what I'm most excited about is that my approach to reading has changed drastically and with it my speed has increased dramatically. My biggest downfall in the past was reading word-by-word (focusing on each and every word rather than grouping words) and vocalizing. (Now I realize it's not necessary to read "word-by-word" and I realize to what extent word-by-word reading as well vocalizing slows one down).
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Summary: It's hard work...but probably worth it
Review: I have purchased more than one speed reading book. The others were large and cumbersome, and as a busy professional the idea of wading through each of them was NOT appealing! This book, however, is small, very readable, and filled with helpful tips. After a brief introductory chapter, the author addresses the attitudes and goals conducive to speed reading. He then covers six major reading problems. The approach is to identify clearly the need for speed reading, then to offer instruction. All of the techniques presented here are very practical, and could be used for office, school or home. The text also has red headers that make it much easier to follow the author's line of thought. I would suggest a second and even a third reading of the book to make sure the bulk of the material has been understood. I recommend this book highly to anyone wanting to improve his/her rate of reading and level of comprehension. Both topics are addressed very well in this work. Now that I've read this book, I have no desire to read the other speed-reading volumes I purchased. Instead, I'm ready to hone my new skills with the reading that I MUST get done!
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Summary: The Absolute Best Help for Speed Reading and Comprehension!!
Review: I have purchased more than one speed reading book. The others were large and cumbersome, and as a busy professional the idea of wading through each of them was NOT appealing! This book, however, is small, very readable, and filled with helpful tips. After a brief introductory chapter, the author addresses the attitudes and goals conducive to speed reading. He then covers six major reading problems. The approach is to identify clearly the need for speed reading, then to offer instruction. All of the techniques presented here are very practical, and could be used for office, school or home. The text also has red headers that make it much easier to follow the author's line of thought. I would suggest a second and even a third reading of the book to make sure the bulk of the material has been understood. I recommend this book highly to anyone wanting to improve his/her rate of reading and level of comprehension. Both topics are addressed very well in this work. Now that I've read this book, I have no desire to read the other speed-reading volumes I purchased. Instead, I'm ready to hone my new skills with the reading that I MUST get done!
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Summary: Practical, sound advice
Review: I'll start off by saying that if you want to become a proficient speed reader, it takes work and effort. Having said this, Moidel's book is the way to go about it. The book outlines the most common hindrances to speed reading and then illustrates how to conquer them. Within an hour I doubled my reading speed by using some of the basic pointers. To get full use of this book, you must dedicate time to practising the numerous drills that are offered. With perseverence, you should be pushing 1000 words per minute with excellent comprehension. This book is fairly small and offers lots of no nonsense advice to get you on your way to speed reading.
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Summary: Gets to the point and works!
Review: I'm still in the practice stage, but this book has helped me triple my reading speed in a short time. The nice thing is it is a short book and you can get going quickly. A must read for people living in this new "information overload" society.
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Summary: Practice makes perfect.
Review: Some of the items explained in the book might seem corny, and you might not want to do them. The thing is that if you carry out the instructions of the book you will develop the ability of improving your reading speed. It's all about practice, without it you will not improve your reading skills or speed.
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Summary: Practice makes perfect.
Review: Some of the items explained in the book might seem corny, and you might not want to do them. The thing is that if you carry out the instructions of the book you will develop the ability of improving your reading speed. It's all about practice, without it you will not improve your reading skills or speed.
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Summary: My first and last speed reading book.
Review: This book is great even for people that do not want to speed read and just want to improve on their reading a little. It describes everything that slows down reading and how to get past it. I was very surprised at the size of this book and thought I might have wasted my money. After reading just the first 4 chapters I realized I would have paid 10 times as much for it. In short, the main reason speed readers are very fast readers is because they practice speed reading and understand how to get past the things that make reading slow. With that, this book explains all of this and makes it simple to understand.
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