Improving my reading.

Alright now I want to know if there is anyways of improving my reading skills and abilities. It's not that I cannot read, because I can. It's just that I always have to repeat a line over and over again, either because I add or replace a word or just because of some random reason. This has an impact on the way I read and cannot retain anything.

I usually need to have somebody to read to me or listen to something read for me while I follow along in the word. Anyways I thought this might be a good place to ask, is there any way of improving my reading skill and/or ability?

Do more of it. Practice makes perfect.

How do I get past the whole "word replacement/adding" thing?

>>3
I'd expect it to go away with time. I can't think of any way to drill it specifically. Are these really important words or something?

>>1
You don't have to learn new skills. It's just a silly habit of yours you will have to purge manually. Stop doing it, read what is written, don't skip too much, don't guess more than you have to. Read the text as it is - a written flow of speech. Imagine the book it a person talking to you. You can't make it stop talking, you have to listen to it on the fly. And it never tells whatever is written in it wrong, always the right order, always the right words.

>>5
What would you suggest for the "repeating issue?" After I read a sentence I seem to have to reread it and lose all memory of what I just read.

>>6
drink more caffeine drinks,

>>6
If you want to get better to read textbooks I'd say do the complete opposite and read a few good novels instead. Sounds to me like you're just not immersed/concentrated enough - because what you describe is somewhat similar to what I experience when I'm being seriously distracted by something. So if you actually read stuff which tries to really drag you in by itself it might help to better immerse yourself and thus teach you leet  concentration skillz.

This might not really make any sense, though. Whatever.

>>6
As I already said, you should just stop doing it. I'm not saying it would be very easy, but it won't be particularly hard.

I think your problem is a combination of the two:
1. A bad habit.
2. Thinking about other things while reading.

To fix #2 you don't have to do anything special, just manually block other unrelated thought. Try it out right now: stop all thinking and listen to silence in your head without reflecting upon anything. Thoughts will occure spontaneously, and you can't do anything about it, but you can elect to not prolong them and let them pass by, which is a trivial to do. You sit down and listen to nothing, and when you think, "there's 4chan in my browser," you don't start thinking whether you should refresh the page or click a board, you just let it all go. "I wonder if there's something funny going on /v/," you think, and let it pass. "I wonder what time it is," but don't look at the clock and don't bother thinking why you should or shouldn't look at the clock at all. Let it pass. THAT'S exactly how a reader's head more or less looks like while he's reading a book, concerning everything except the material in the book itself. If you're going to read normally, you simply have all other thoughts on stand-by. This is easier than it sounds, it's just that talking about simplest stuff is always the hardest. You can't count and recite a poem at the same time, you can't read while you're thinking about what happened earlier today and what  cool things to do in next weekend.

#1, like all bad habits, is harder to fix. You just have to stop yourself manually whenever you can, until it disappears. Don't let yourself re-read sentences at all, even if you completely forget what you just read. Punish yourself with ignorance every time you try to forget and re-read something, and your habit will vaporize soon, maybe after a few days or a week's time max.