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Over the coming days and weeks, persevere with your new reading method and monitor your progress at regular stages. Find the most efficient pointer, and if you have access to a metronome, use it during practice sessions to maintain a steady rhythm. See how fast you can read. By pushing your reading rate up to dizzy heights during practice, you will
... See moreDominic O'Brien • How to Pass Exams: Accelerate Your Learning, Memorise Key Facts, Revise Effectively
The average hardcover book takes 4.3 hours to read and $23 to buy. Therefore the average consumer cost for that reading duration is $5.34 per hour.
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
The average person reads roughly 265 words per minute—the number we use in this book to calculate read time. Do your own math.
Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity
The average person reads roughly 265 words per minute—the number we use in this book to calculate read time. Do your own math.
Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity
Carl Hendrick • Ultra-Processed Minds: The End of Deep Reading and What It Costs Us
What will be the fate of reading? I don’t mean the left-to-right movement of the eyes as we take in information, but the age-old practice of addressing the world by way of this inward faculty of imagination. I mean reading as a filtering of the complexities of the real through artistic narrative, reflection, and orchestration of verbal imagery.