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Originally Posted by CatherineStewart
Good to know and I'm inclined to agree. It's interesting reading everyones thoughts. I didn't know you could actually switch your brain back and forth to speed read or read slower. I thought once you could speed read it was like a hard habit to break. So that's interesting too.
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No, speedreading is a specific technique for extracting the pertinent facts from a passage of text and "blanking out" the extraneous stuff. Very useful for people like lawyers who need to quickly read a huge quantity of written material. Completely useless for reading fiction for leisure.