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Summary:
A previous National Director of Education for Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics presents his do-it-yourself program for increasing reading speed and boosting comprehension.
"Speed reading is one of the truly useful educational ideas of the last few years, and this book can be the least expensive and most efficient way you can learn it." --William Proxmire, United States Senator
The perfect answer to today's information explosion, Peter Kump's rapid reading method has already helped thousands of people to read up to eight times faster, with better concentration and retention.
This program brings together the best of what classroom speed reading courses have to offer, and distills fundamental principles and skills that can be learned at home with the help of the drills and exercises provided. And because it lets readers choose their own material and set their own pace, it's the ideal method for busy people juggling a full schedule.
Breakthrough Rapid Reading makes conquering information overload a reality. So whether it's cutting down on that backlog of business reports and technical matter or scaling that mountain of newspapers and leisure reading, getting up to speed is only a matter of time and practice.
Customer Reviews:
Average Customer Rating:
speed reading isn't better reading
Customer Rating:
I gave up half way through this book. I was completing the objectives for the drills and doing 3-4 drills every day afterwards, plus I read a lot.
I've always been a slow reader and thought this book would help me, but I'm interested in reading fiction and the reading style this book teaches is "speed reading". I simply get less out of the books I read at my leisure using this method and I don't read any faster.
Once I got to the chapter on "dusting" I had had enough.
This book was a terrible waste of time for me.
Amazing learning experience, very necessary for rapid reading
Customer Rating:
I've been looking for an all-in-one, lesson, theory, practice, and appliance book on speed reading. After going through a lot of reviews and skimming through a few books, this came up to be on top of the list. I'm very glad to have found this book, as it has changed my reading habits and my life. I've already improved so much and I'm not even half-way done the book yet. I'm so excited to see how much I'll have improved by the end of the book. Even reading crap is now a breeze!
Peter Kump is the real-deal. He will teach you to master and practice the best way to rapid reading. You will improve by just reading the book and doing some exercises, but if you really want to improve rapidly, you must practice the lessons given like if you were in school. If you put some time into them everyday, even 20, 30 minutes daily, it is inevitable that you will improve your reading rate. This book has it all. I only wish I had this before I entered university.
Astonishingly Fast Progress
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I'm only on the third chapter of this book and the progress in speed an retention is amazing. I went from 355 words/minute to averaging over 600 words/minute in less than an hour of practice on a Sunday afternoon. If I've made this kind of progress in an hour I can't imagine what the rest of the book holds in store.
I never thought it would be possible, but 1,200 words/minute seems not only achievable but almost easy.
Very Helpful
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I am a teacher as well as a student who is completing my degree work. Both of these roles require a great deal of reading. Using the techniques from this book has helped me to increase my reading speed by at least 30% and I'm only on the 3rd chapter.
Fantastic - It really does work - you get out what you put in
Customer Rating:
From 200 to over 1300 words per minute with retention - it's pretty impressive. The good thing is that the techniques in the book really do produce results above and beyond what you ever expected...the bad news is that it does not happen over-night, it takes good bit of dedication and consistency. You have to really want it to complete this course of 36 chapters.
The fact that it does NOT happen over-night is something that you should be really happy about - because it's like body building - only it's mind building !
For those willing to put in the work, the rewards will be great and you will not regret it....and you can keep your newly developed skill for the rest of your life !
Throughout the course I reached practise rates in the mid to late 2000s with a final rate of 1900 wpm.
The best part is finishing a book in one day - it's something I've always wanted to be able to do - and now it's a reality.
I cannot recommend this book enough....and on so many different levels.
Buy it !
Remember one thing though - with any rapid reading the faster you go the resolution of the material does drop - like going from colour to black and white - but the important details are still there.
The course teaches you many different gears to be applied to reading for different rates from meadium, to fast, to really fast so you can pickup and go and adjust as required - along with a lot of different exercises on recall to improve comprehension as well as study oriented reading exercises to increase retention, recall and comprehension.
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