Speed reading

I do not know any off hand. I remember there was called the Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics, but you had to pay for that one and it was in many of the business courses back in the 70s. I learned by reading a book and what it did was tell you to see things in paragraphs rather than actual words and all about skimming, but I do not know the author. Anyway these links might help. http://uk.yhs.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?partnerid=yhs-hpfr-sb&p=speed+reading+programs&fr=yhs-hpfr-sb&ei=UTF-8 Most of what I learned was by getting info from various sources, but I did learn one thing, you also have to learn how to memorize because it just do no good to see things in paragraphs or a whole page if you forget it ten minutes later.

I dun really believe in speed reading because i dun think it helps much in our life.. Though i'm fast in reading by nature, but i dun like it, because it doesn't train up my patience with things.. Thus, i wun really recommend speed reading..

I've tried a few speed reading books and they didn't work for me. I found out no speed reading course could work for me unless it was one of the speed computer reading courses (where the computer reads and you learn to listen more quickly) due to visual disabilities. I was rather disappointed since my reading is painfully slow. But I wish you better luck than I had!

GO to the liabrary and see if they have any programs for it.

i'm mot familiar with any online program, free or not, online. but, i read somewhere that the secret to fast reading is to not read each and every word in each and every sentence of a paragraph. the best thing to do is to sort of browse through the sentences and find the keywords that would say what the main thought is. i tried that and it worked.

I don't know of any on-line speed reading programs, but a friend of mine showed me how he did it several years ago. You just need to read the first sentence out of each paragraph and you can get a strong enough indication of what the piece of work is about - enough in some cases to write your own review about it. I was quite surprised at how effective it was. I don't know if there are any other techniques, but it may be worth putting a post up asking if any other member on myLot knows.. Good luck with it.. :-)

I saw a book on speed reading a long time ago and I did not really study it but there are a few things that stick in my mind like, don't read the small words like articles and conjunctions and stuff. The big words will tell you what the article is all about and the small words like conjunctions will only slow you down. Another thing is to pay attention to words in bold letters and headings, they are important. Hope this helps. Cheers!!