Readers ‘should be wary of promises to increase speed with no cost to comprehension’, say researchers Despite the wishes of all those of us with a teetering to-be-read pile, companies and apps that ...

Apps such as Spreeder and Spritz are bringing speed reading back into fashion. But what gets lost in this race for the last page? This article contains 1,993 words. If you were to read it to the end, ...

Forty years ago, Donald Homa, a professor of psychology at Arizona State University specializing in memory and the visual perception of linguistic stimuli, was contacted by officials at the American ...

I once worked on the books pages of a newspaper with a woman who took a course in speed-reading. She needed it, she said: so many books came past her desk every week and she needed to have an opinion ...

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 ...

The definition for speed-reading is pretty self-explanatory: it is a set of techniques that are specifically designed to be utilised by a person to improve their ability to read faster than before.

Reading is the road to greater understanding of the world and ourselves. For many of us, though, it can be a slower road than we’d like. But reading is a skill like any other, so you can improve with ...