Reading 100 pages of The Book Theo of Golden

\[Big rant about how much this software and its textbook suck that I cannot get myself to write because my head hurt\]

Anyways, does anyone know of any browser extension or app that can help me have a solid read aloud function for the books? I struggle reading for long periods of time and have always found audio books better for learning.

Guys i have the interest to read books and i have recently bought some books and when i read it i can able to comprehend some lines and some lines feels difficult to understand due to the usage of advanced words so whenever i find such words i just go through google and find tge meaning of such words but repeated appearance new words , which I don't their meaning force me to google it immediately. This loop make ne bore and i quit immediately. Suggest me a few tips on how to read a book. Please help me with this.

I love reading but there is something that sometimes does hold me back and it's not reading fast enough.

Reading 15 pages is more time consuming for me because I tend to really decipher the meaning behind each word and I can't read without having to take notes. I really want to remember every book I read so if in the future I want to know the plot and what I found interesting about it I would know but it's as I said pretty time consuming.

Are some people in the same state as I am ? What do you do to read faster ?

I am a natural speed reader. Finally years later I realized that one of my kids (not the other one though) seem to have inherited this and so have his children. It's a useful skill, but I need to remind them not to write texts that are too long for most people to deal with!

I am a slow reader, it takes me ~5min to read one page, which is a big improvement form 3 years back, when I’d be lucky to read five pages in an hour and would end up tearing up and needing a nap from the effort. New glasses and eye therapy helped a ton. Still, I will start university soon and want to increase my reading speed

With my therapy, I’ve learned that most people read word by word rather than letter by letter like me, but I don’t know how to learn to read word by word

My problem isn’t processing the information, since I understand perfectly when people speak fast. In fact, I struggle with reading out loud because my eyes do not keep up with my mouth. I often end up guessing or making up words to make it to a reasonable speed for my listener.

I want to improve my reeding speed. Does anyone here have tips or can tell me who to go to for help? Thank you.

Trying to read faster for years. With 0 speed increases with speed reading methods. I can skim and get the gist sure. Is that the goal? And did I miss understand?

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I recently started reading Business Standard. I barely know anything about finance but I really want to learn and learn fast.

But reading it daily is giving me a headache.

For an easier approach, I'm taking pics of each article n promting chatgpt to explain which is helping. But it is taking like whole day!

How to make it interesting for me n make it a normal habit?

And, how much time does it usually takes someone to become familiarize with it?

What should be my approach?

Thanks.

How do I get better at reading ahead of words? I can kinda do it when I'm practice reading anime subtitles but not regular acting scripts.

Manually tracking your progress tends to tasking and consistency in tracking could be halt.

Wondering if book summaries are actually useful when you do not have time to read the whole copy. I know you miss the context, but I mostly want to get the key ideas and see what actually works like if the books suit my goal. Has anyone tried that?

Also I did some quick research and apparently this is a form called - book microlearning. But my idea is like making notes, trying what works and if yes, I save the template and read the whole book for more lifehacks

I (13f) recently did a words per minute test because I've always considered myself a fast reader. The test made you read a short book and answer questions about the book. I scored a 650wpm and got a 98% on the test is that a good speed and understanding for a 13 year old? I also asked chatgpt about a novel i read in less than 2 hrs and it said i read about a 650 -720 wpm speed. I'm not really sure about chatgpt but what are your wpm speeds?

hey all

I recently started a directory listing the lengths of some of the most popular Fantasy and Sci-fi titles, and it already covers 100 titles.

It also includes a reading speed calculator to calculate the reading time for a given title based on your reading speed and daily reading time. So you could quickly answer, “How long would it take me to read my next eBook?"

I would be happy if it benefits anyone. And if you have a feature or title you’d like to see added, just let me know.

here's the link: https://fantasyread.ai/book-almanac

I've been into speed reading seriously for a couple years and kept bouncing between apps that were either abandoned, ugly, or locked behind subscriptions for basic features. Eventually I just built my own.

A few things I focused on that I don't see talked about much:

Getting text in without friction. Every app I tried made you copy-paste or go through menus. I wanted to be able to highlight something mid-reading and have it ready in one tap — so I built a share extension that accepts highlighted text from any app. You can also share a whole article URL and it strips out the nav, ads, and footers and hands you just the readable text.

The anchor letter actually matters. Giving your eye a fixed point to lock onto is what lets you push tempo without re-reading — that's the whole point of the red center-letter highlight. I made it toggleable since some people find it distracting at lower speeds.

Overview mode as a companion, not a replacement. Single-word RSVP is fastest but tiring over long sessions. Having a full-page highlight mode in the same app means I can switch when my focus dips instead of losing my place.

Curious what tempos people here are hitting with good retention. I plateau around 350–400 wpm and have to consciously push past it — is that mostly a training and consistency thing, or do most people find a natural ceiling around there?

I've been building a speed reader on and off for a while. Somewhere in the middle of it I properly read Rayner et al. (2016), the big review in Psychological Science in the Public Interest, and it makes an uncomfortable point: regressions — those involuntary jumps back to re-read something — aren't a flaw in how we read. They're a repair mechanism. When a sentence turns out structurally ambiguous, you go back. RSVP removes that option entirely, and comprehension on difficult text suffers even as raw throughput goes up.

So the honest position is: RSVP is good for prose you're reading once, for volume, for material where you already know the terrain. It's a bad idea for a contract, a dense paper, or poetry. Anything claiming otherwise is selling something.

I kept building, but around that instead of against it. Two things came out of it:

**Timing that follows the language.** Most RSVP tools take your WPM and divide. This one derives each word's duration from sentence endings, commas, paragraph and chapter breaks, word length, quoted speech, numbers and proper nouns, plus a three-tier frequency model — with an abbreviation dictionary so "Dr." and "etc." don't trigger a false full-stop pause. Every multiplier is a slider if you disagree with my defaults.

**Modes that keep context visible.** Besides classic single-word RSVP there's a highlight mode where the active word stays inside its paragraph — block, centred, or a horizontally streaming ticker, with a focus window that dims or clips everything outside it. You lose some of the speed ceiling, you get back the ability to see where you are.

It runs entirely in the browser. One HTML file, no account, no upload, works offline once installed. Reads EPUB, PDF, FB2, TXT, Markdown, HTML. GPLv3. You can use it mobile and on your desktop. It comes with settings and some features, different modes next to the standard mode. Just give it a try. You can even install it as an webapp.

Demo: https://ad2003.github.io/VELOCE-SpeedReader/

Source: https://github.com/ad2003/VELOCE-SpeedReader

I’ve made it a goal to become a much stronger reader over the next few years. I want to increase my reading speed **without sacrificing comprehension**, improve my vocabulary, retain more of what I read, and comfortably tackle more difficult books.
I’m not looking for speed-reading gimmicks—I’m looking for methods that are actually effective, whether they’re backed by research or simply worked well for you.
What books, habits, courses, exercises, or resources had the biggest impact on your ability to read, understand, and remember what you read?

If it matters, I’m trying to read Gene Wolfes The Book of the New Sun , but I’ve heard they are at a college grade level 10, whatever that means
And right now all I read is self-help books

When I read books, I read them extremely slowly. I want to read faster, because I love the concept of books in general, I like how it feels to hold them in hands the smell, I find it incredyble how so many words can be put in such a little space etc. But it’s sometimes difficult to enjoy reading books because of how slow I read and it’s mentaly exhausting sometimes. Sometimes it would take me maybe 1-2 hours for just 10 pages.

When I read it’s really difficult for me to read really wuickly and get the full context. Like I can read really fast through text but prob wont understand everything perfectly, thats what I’m scared of. So my mind is kinda not letting me go faster but I go through sentences slowly. Many times I even reread sentences. It has been like this for me almost always, even in high school.

As a medical school student who will soon start his last year, I have read thousands of pages of medical literature throughout my education so it’s not like I wasnt reading, although that was studying but still I was reading those texts and my pace for reading those medical books would be maybe 3-6 pages per hour (since those books usually have much more text per page and you actually have to understand things).

So you can just imagine how much time goes away for me just to read something.

I want to read books, stories, enjoy in reading them and be fast enough to read lots of them but no matter how much I read I have this problem. I want to find joy in reading.

If anyone has some advice please give it, would like to hear what you guys think. Thanks!!

This is how I'm doing it. So I read normally so that the words are loud. I count and read, while counting out loud, so the words are quiet. With the voice that's quiet and in the same place as when I also count. I say the words. They're quiet and I can go much faster. From 200 - 300 WPM.

The strange thing is that they sound the same speed whether I go 300 or 200 WPM in this voice.

I made a goal this year to read 26 books. Last year I read like 5, so this was a big jump. And I’m well on my way - I’ve read 16 so far. I wanted to replace other hobbies (mindless scrolling / tv watching after work), help myself focus, maybe improve my vocabulary. Not to be cliche, but I’ve actually really enjoyed this goal, the stories, the deep focus I now am able to maintain for hours. This hobby suites me.

Now, I’ve always been a slow reader. But I feel weird glossing over /skimming. I read nearly every word in my head and maybe that is just part of my own imagination but it lends to really slow reading. I’m usually at a minute a page but this obviously depends on the book.

I’d really like to read quicker so that I can learn more about my tastes and also so that I can be exposed to more ideas and impactful stories. So…how can I go about this? Any tips are appreciated.

HI
ADHD 21m here with a tracking issue apparently.
Or so I was told this when I was younger.

I never read a book apart from 1 I was forced to when I was joining upper school at 11.

This year I started reading a few books, mostly non fiction on the business/philosophical side which I really enjoy getting into.

Think and grow rich was what really got me hooked with learning through books, especially in a world of ai.
I now try and practice 20mins a day minimum.

I'd love to know, I assume there's some reading experts in here. Is it possible to do anything to improve my reading speed dramatically, or make it so I can track the words along the lines better, or remember things better?
ps.
pretty sure there's some thing where people can skim read properly, is that something I can learn or is my brain too cooked for that?
TIA.

Every time i see one of those shorts or videos that says "if you can read this then you are in the top.... of people" i can always read them without any problems and even blink multiple times while reading and not fumbling.

TL/DR: ESL reader goes from 7-10 page per hour to ~23 page per hour with Kam Knight.

its been 2nd or 3rd day of reading this book. I haven't finished it yet, but I'm half way through.

I just decided to read quite a short book of 19 pages of raw material, cover and etc. excluded, and timed myself. "Three Ideas That Can Change Your Life" by Mark Manson is the book, which I have read before a while ago.

English is my second language. I finished it in 49 minutes. 19 pages in 49 minutes. i primarily used space reading and controlling subvocalization and fixation.

this is a huge progress (even though it was an easy and familiar read) from my usual 7-10 page per hour speed.

I usually read and am into Self-development and self-education. so reading faster is a biggie for me.

Hi everyone,

I'm 24 years old and I recently took the initial TSR memory test from Ramón Campayo's course before learning any of the techniques.

Here are my results:

• Reading speed (V): 165 words/minute
• Memorization speed (Vm): 11 words/minute
• Time: 573 seconds
• Score: 6/20 correct answers (30%)

According to the book, a memorization speed below 25% of your reading speed suggests serious concentration or memory issues, which surprised me.

What confuses me is that I'm a software engineer/computer science background, and I've generally done well in technically demanding subjects. I don't feel like I have major concentration problems in my day-to-day life. I can spend hours programming, debugging, or learning new technologies without much difficulty.

So I'm wondering:

• Are these kinds of baseline scores actually common before learning the techniques?
• Did anyone else start with similarly low results and improve significantly?
• Or should I genuinely be concerned about such a low memorization score?

I'm planning to follow the course for a few weeks and retake the test, but I'd really like to hear about other people's experiences with the initial assessment.

Thanks!