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 ...

Boston-based tech startup Spritz recently released a new speed-reading technology that will soon become embedded in the many websites, apps and other wearable devices increasingly common to daily ...

The answer depends on the reading material and your desired outcome. As Lifehacker noted, as your reading speed increases, your level of comprehension decreases in turn. The main criticism of Rapid ...

When you're crunched for time, life hacks and time-savers may seem especially tantalizing. Speed-reading courses promise to improve reading speed without sacrificing accuracy, but do they really help?

A nice feature of the Kindle is that it shows how much time is left with the book that you are reading. It gets shown at the bottom left corner and the figure is deduced after estimating your reading ...

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, ...

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 ...

Howard Berg claims to read 25,000 words a minute—the equivalent of an old-school airport paperback every four minutes. First, the good news: A skilled reader can actually tell you the plot of an ...

You don’t listen to audiobooks. Audiobooks allow me to read many more books, as I listen to books while I’m doing something else. For you, listening to audiobooks is torture. My half-baked hypothesis ...