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Originally Posted by rcentros
That's kind of what I was wondering.
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As I said earlier, life is short, books are too many and I won't like this in news someday - "... and he left behind a wife, two sons and a TBR list of over 5000 books...."
Jokes apart, I was trying to gather the reading experience of various members, to see if the ereaders help us improve our reading speed by any means, as I felt in my personal experience. Besides the above, a whole bunch of new reasons which may affect the reading speed, have been suggested to me by various avid readers, which I am thankful for.
Speed Reading has been a subject of debate for many years. In past, even US president John F. Kennedy was a proponent of speed reading and encouraged his staff to take lessons. President Jimmy Carter, and his wife Rosalynn, were both avid readers and enrolled in a speed-reading course at the White House, along with several staff members.
Common controversies in speed reading are between its intent and nature with traditional concepts like Comprehension vs Speed. The World Championship Speed Reading Competition stresses reading comprehension as critical. Mental readers generally read at approximately 250 words per minute. Auditory readers read at approximately 450 words per minute. Visual readers read at approximately 700 words per minute. Visual reading is a skill that can be developed through continuous training and practice. The top contestants typically read around 1,000 to 2,000 words per minute with approximately 50% comprehension or above.
Even computer programs are available to help instruct speed reading. Some programs present the data as a serial stream, since the brain handles text more efficiently by breaking it into such a stream before parsing and interpreting it.
In this context, my curiosity regarding improvement in reading speed should not be considered extraordinary.
