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The Speed Reading Book (Mind Set) [Student Edition] (Paperback)

by Tony Buzan (Author)
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  • Paperback: 232 pages
  • Publisher: BBC Active; New edition edition (8 May 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 056348702X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0563487029
  • Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.6 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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'The Speed Reading Book is an absolute requirement for anyone with a desire to read and learn more efficiently'. Sean Adam, World Speed Reading Record Holder

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Tony’s innovative approach to this subject makes speed reading easy to understand, enabling you to apply it immediately to all aspects of your life. It’s fun as well! An ideal tool for students, teachers, executives – indeed, anyone eager to improve the speed, comprehension and quality of their reading.

 

Speed Reading makes it easy to:

  • Think faster and more creatively
  • Make better notes
  • Pass exams with relative ease
  • Study more successfully
  • Save days, weeks even months of your time


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63 of 65 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars The speed reading book, 13 Jul 2004
By Mr. B. Palmer "bryce2001" (Leicestershire, UK) - See all my reviews
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I read this book in conjunction with 'use your head' by the same author. Both books are excellent and are particularly useful if read together. As a result of reading this book my reading speed has more than doubled and I am more confident about my study skills.
The author writes in a positive, no-nonsense manner which instils confidence within the reader. Although the information/self-tests are geared towards improving speed and the information on improving levels of comprehension is comparatively sparse, the book is a 'must-have' for those who wish to improve one of the most important life-skills.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Beware the low ratings from reviewers, 5 May 2006
By Mr. W. Yip (London, England) - See all my reviews
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When I started the course, I was reading (and comprehending about 80%) at 240wpm. After just a week, I was reading at 700-800 wpm with about 60% comprehension. But many months later, and sticking to the techniques, I've managed to reach 1100wpm and getting closer to 90% retention.

The point is, you will invariably lose comprehension when you first learn speed reading, and you will feel like you're "skimming". But your eyes pick up a lot of peripheral data and this is absorbed in your brain, whether you realise it or not.

Speed reading is like a diet... you have to keep at it, and you have to stick to the requirements through thick and thin.

Highly recommended!
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164 of 179 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Maybe..., 26 Jul 2003
I have to confess that I did not complete this book and the course it laid out to improve my speed reading skills. However, I can claim that by following the advice in the first few instructional chapters I did manage to increase my reading speed by 50% using very basic techniques that require little training. However, I found that the huge leaps the book made in the subsequent chapters were daunting and perhaps only attainable by those with a real conviction to improve their reading speed (my conquest, on the other hand, was based more on curiousity than self-improvement).

What follows is a brief description of the organisation and layout of the book. If you are after a final conclusion please skip to the end : )

It starts off with a bit of background on speed reading and affirms that anybody can easily master 1000 words per minute. In various chapters it introduces various bits on psychology and the science behind speed reading that are interesting on their own and are presumeably there to make you believe that increased speeds are simply a product of knowing how to access, understand and use these parts of your brain/mind.

There is also a brief section on famous speed readers that the author obviously intends to inspire you with: Tony makes out that we can all have a photographic memories like Magliabechi, an assumption I find difficult to quantify.

As far as the actual advice goes, instructions are laid out clearly and following each section and a brief practice, there is a test designed to analyse your reading speed, the progress of which you can track on a graph in the back of the book. However, the greatest misconception regarding high reading speeds is that any increase in speed is associated with a drop in the level of comprehension. For this reason, each speed test is accompanied by a multiple choice test to gauge your understanding of the text. Whilst this is the simplest way of assessing comprehension in the form of a book that can be easily followed in another graph in the back, I don't believe this to be a scientifically valid way to measure knowledge since the options help stir memories and hence it is a lot easier to remember specific facts.

In reality, even after following the advice in the book, I still find myself having to read a line several times to remember a key fact or more frequently, pausing to write it down (since for me, this usually involves remembering several dates of different statutes or specific chains of events). In other words I am tempted to disagree that at higher reading speeds comprehension is increased (since mine remained consistently above 90% over the different reading tests in both preliminary tests and those following the advice given in the book).

Another complaint I have to make is that in the later stages of the book (the parts that put me off) you are asked to practise the new, more difficult skills in a book you will set aside specifically for practising your skills. However, the author makes no mention of the type of book you should read: fiction/non-fiction, size of book/text, should you have previously read it or not? There are all number of points in the book saying why each of the above may have a profound effect on reading speed so to skip this crucial advice seems a major mistake and partly why I stopped (that, and my own inability to rarely complete anything I start for myself).

Skipping past the more advanced reading skills and on to the end of the book, there are a number of more useful chapters with instructions on how to appreciate literature and poetry whilst reading at quicker speeds, how to read newspapers and magazines quicker and other sundry skills sich as reviewing, skimming and scanning which again require a lot of practice to master and whose definitions are not particularly clear themselves!

In conclusion, despite my somewhat negative review, there are workable and easy to understand principles that everyone can employ and many more that perhaps the more determined speed reader or self improvement fanatic can pursue (although I cannot give testemony to the quality of the latter) with enough psychological discussion to entertain and forge the belief that you can improve.
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3.0 out of 5 stars not so good
I'll be honest, I didn't like this book. It does give you techniques and it should improve youre reading speed if implimented. Read more
Published 1 month ago by mustafa

4.0 out of 5 stars Better than the rest
For the less confident the book contains anecdotes and examples for practising speed reading.

MOST IMPORTANTLY the book has actual techniques which you can use to... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Andrew Barnes

3.0 out of 5 stars Obsessive mind mapping
The first half of this book was quite useful in that it highlights problems with back skipping and other basic reading "problems". Read more
Published 13 months ago by G. D. Atkinson

1.0 out of 5 stars Oh dear.
This book is full of outlandish and unsubstantiated claims about speed reading. It is padded with bad science, unreferenced information that is simply unbelievable and exhaustive... Read more
Published on 7 April 2006 by M. T. Belton

4.0 out of 5 stars Do the excercises and see the results
I increased my reading speed by 50% and also my comprehension. Like every good thing, you need to work at it.
Published on 3 Feb 2004

3.0 out of 5 stars A very quick read indeed
Not impressed with this book - I read it cover to cover inside 20mins.
Published on 8 Jul 2003 by S. Lacey

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