Speedreading?

I got a book on Lithursday about "light speed" reading, but it seems pretty fartfetched. Can anyone speedread or have any experience with speedreaders?

No.  Go at your own pace and enjoy it.

My uncle gave me a fucking two hour lecture about the joys of speed reading and how awesome it is while I just smiled and nodded... But it's... dumb. I mean, it's useful to skim a book if you have to get info out of it (ie a textbook) but I know people who speed read through EVERYTHING.

I tend to read books twice, once speedreading for the plot then once more at a later time to fully appreciate the whole thing. Making Money took me about three hours on the first runthrough, and about a week on the second.

>>4
There is no way you read 400 pages in 3 hours

>>5
Making money was piss easy to read. Also, it wasn't as good as "Going Postal".

I speedread too, so second readthroughs are often more thick and rich for me. Like Peanut Butter.

I don't think that I speed read but I tend to go through books that I like fairly quickly.  I also read books any number of times based on how good they were and I will pick up things that I missed before.  A sad example of this is that until the first movie I thought Mr. Filch(sp?) from Harry Potter was a woman, my mind always put in Mrs. instead of Mr. for some reason.  I also like to skip the prologue so I have something new to read the next time.

>>5
I am not the person that claimed to read that book in 3 hours but I can tell you that such a feat isnt that hard. I have been reading since i was three years old and constantly have a book in my hand (yeah, giant fucking escapist loser, so what?). I do not 'speed read' as such but because i have read so much i just naturally read much faster than the average person. once you stop vocalizing words in your mind (as in, sort of reading the words aloud in your head really fast) your reading speed increases dramatically

>>8
Exactly.

Been reading since I was like 6 or so, off and on, but had many phases of damn near complete literary immersion. 80 pages in 40 minutes wasn't that hard (for a complex work). I'd bet I could do 400 in like 4 or 5 hours. Not that bad.

I used to speedread, but then I'd get to page 200 out of like, 500 and find I missed one minor detail back on page 4 that turns into a major plot element.

Shit sucks.

>>1 'fartfetched'. I'm not a speed-reader.

I can only average like 50 pages an hour.  Slow and steady wins the race.