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Originally Posted by Xanthe
Count me as another person who also has always wondered why anyone would want to speedread. It always seemed as if it would remove the fun from reading.
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Quite the contrary.
If you speed-read at University, you can absorb an entire semester in a few hours. Thus reducing the boredom of weeks to a single day. (This only applies to information driven courses, where you'd memorize lots of data. Didn't work for me for mathematic courses, where you have to understand a topic, modify methodologies and such). If it's about absorbing as much information as possible, speed reading is extremely helpful and kind of fun.
I'd never do so for reading material I want to enjoy, though. Only for the material, where I have "to fight through".