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Summary: A truly excellent program
Review: As a high school student, I have a large amount of reading to do every evening. I first discovered speed reading with Evelyn Wood's program: I found it wanting in practical instruction, and I felt it was just 'advanced' skimming. Then I came upon Photo Reading (or Rapid Reading made E-Z). This was an absolute waste of money. The author reminded me of a used car salesman- the book was all hype, no substance. When 'Triple Your Reading Speed' finally came across my path, I had settled upon the status quo of slow reading. Lo and behold, Mr. Cutler's Acceleread Method is the real deal. You have to face the fact that faster reading is only achieved with practice. However, I was able to triple my speed and improve comprehension 20% in just 3 days. The book strikes a balance between theory, drills, and application. One week after discovering this book, I am reading at nearly 5x my original speed. IF YOU WANT TO SPEED READ INSTEAD OF 'SPEED SKIM,' THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU.
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Summary: Good book, will triple your reading speed with work.
Review: 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.
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Summary: Best Book
Review: This has to be the best Speed reading book I've ever read. It's easy to read and and easier to apply. All you have to have it the will to make it happen.
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