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Originally Posted by RWood
There was no joy reading this way for me. For business school cases it was also a disaster. I remember I read a 40 page case about Citibank and thought it had something to do with check processing and money. All but one in my group went back to their old reading ways after the course. The one that stayed with it flunked out after the first term.
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Originally Posted by netseeker
Imho, if one has to read a lot of stuff regulary in very short time then he will become a "speed-reader" (or at least a very good and fast reader) automatically.
If you want learn speed-reading please keep one thing in mind: It isn't that useful as it seems to be. Speed-Reading poetry and fiction isn't much fun because it affects the power of imagination negatively (you just don't have enough time to use your imagination while reading) and speed-reading technical books isn't possible without missing some (mostly important) details.
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I've been thinking about picking up the speed of my reading and had taken speed reading courses in the past, but like you both said, although I remembered a lot, there was also a lot that I felt was missing after I finished a book. It just wasn't the same. I had always assumed I needed to practice it more, but now I realise that it with speed, I'll pay in enjoyment, and probably comprehension and/or feeling as well.