The answer depends on the reading material and your desired outcome. As Lifehacker noted, as your reading speed increases, your level of comprehension decreases in turn. The main criticism of Rapid ...

The late Nora Ephron famously felt badly about her neck, but that’s minor compared to how people feel about their reading. We think everyone else reads faster than we do, that we should be able to ...

Reading is one of the most fundamental skills, and reading for pleasure can transform your health, memory, and productivity. In our age of information overload, however, it can feel like there isn’t ...

Learning to speed read seems like an obvious strategy for zipping through the emails, reports, and other text we encounter daily, but a new report shows that the claims made by many speed reading ...

Speed reading can seem like an almost superhuman feat – but is it really possible to read quickly and retain the information? Many of us would love to be able to read faster, yet still take everything ...

Howard Berg claims to read 25,000 words a minute—the equivalent of an old-school airport paperback every four minutes. First, the good news: A skilled reader can actually tell you the plot of an ...

When Marcia Biederman was a 19-year-old college student in the 1960s, she found herself fighting a not-uncommon battle. “I was, like many college students, overwhelmed by my reading load,” says ...