Thread: Software to help you speed read?
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Old 09-21-2013, 07:43 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by Bob Russell View Post
One of my pet peeves is authors that hide critical story elements buried obscurely in just a few words in a boring section. So I skim and get burned later.
That seems to me to be a feature since skimming is not reading. Why read the book at all if you skim part of it? Why not read a synopsis instead?
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