Slow Reading
As much as many of us would love to read faster so that we could read more books, science points to speed reading as little more than efficient skimming, partially…
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Speed Reading the Man-Booker Shortlist
To test reading software Spritz, an app that helps readers achieve high words-per-minute rates, Rob Boffard decided to start with the Man-Booker shortlist. He used the program to read Joshua…
What’s the Point of Speed Reading?
“The dream of speed-reading has been around since long before screens were ubiquitous,” as James Camp writes in the New Yorker. Now, the much-discussed startup Spritz is promising to make…
Slow Down, Speed Reading Enthusiasts
Last week, we talked about the new speed reading app Spritz, which promises to have us reading faster than we ever thought possible. As it turns out, it may not…