I signed up for the NY Times and now I'm addicted. Seriously each day that I don't read it cover to cover I feel like I'm behind (plus there's always interesting articles on slate and the perverted IM convo from Foley to his page). Not to mention none of the above telling me that Zeta-Jones got booted from her T-mobile deal. I mean, omg. I had to read that through a Post-Gazette dispenser. Then tomorrow there's another newspaper on my porch. Don't get me wrong, I love it. There's only one solution-- learn to read faster. I did some research.
First of all, don't look back at old words. Keep your eyes moving to the next set of words.
(Duh, right? a disappointing first tip) There's even a word for looking back-- regression. Jess pointed out how strange it is to have a word for looking back. I totally agree. Strike one turboreader.
Sub-vocalize as little as possible. As you've read the words above, have you heard yourself in your head reading? You're supposed to read without talking in your head, I guess. THIS IS SO HARD FOR ME! I find myself trying not to hear my voice as I read, and instead realize I've stopped breathing. Other times I read, and don't sub-vocalize and have no clue what I've read. However, when it does work, it's amazing. I feel like I've freed up an entire portion of my brain to think as I read leisurely. It does actually work. A hit!
The other tips are things like concentrate and don't reverse words... (strike 2 and 3)
Tuesday, October 3
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2 comments:
nice narrated,good collection,,i was moving to my yoga blog and ur blog showed up there,good work, thanks.
My comment part II.
I think that avoiding regression makes sense for increasing reading rate (not that I'm such an expert but it's my opinion) but I would question what it does to comprehension. Not sure what the effect is but I would imagine that it has one. Again not trying to be an expert but just giving my opinion - I find that when I'm really moving through a book (or at least it feels like I am) I'm not vocalizing the words because I am visualizing what is going on - I imagine it's somewhat common but I find it a weird experience since it doesn't seem like you are actually looking at the words.
That's cool that you are reading the newspaper each day - I always feel behind just trying to read the NYT daily emails.
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