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id: srw
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title: Speed Reading Workbook
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date: 2021-07-10
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Speed Reading Workbook
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I have finally finished this workbook.
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It has languished as a pdf file only for a couple of months while I worked on other things.
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I wanted to have it as a functional epub file before I posted it here.
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I spend a fair bit of time in the last couple weeks looking at extracted epub files to figure out their structure and the formatting that I needed to do to get everything working.
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It was pretty fun and like the website I really enjoyed doing it by hand.
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</p>
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This workbook is designed as help with practicing Tim Ferriss' speed reading technique.
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You can see his full explanation of it <a href="https://tim.blog/2009/07/30/speed-reading-and-accelerated-learning">here</a>.
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The workbook uses public domain text (Grimm's fairy tales) as the practice material and adds in the formatting as you work through it.
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Then takes it away to see if you can maintain the speed.
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I chose Grimm's fairy tales because they are easy to read for a variety of reading levels.
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My first iteration was using some of Seneca's letters but they were too hard to follow while trying to read quickly for the first time.
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I decided that as much as I loved the idea of sneaking some philosophy into the workbook it detracted from the actual skill that I was trying to build.
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This particular technique is one that I have been using for a few years.
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I mainly use it for non fiction as it is definitely a bit of a strain to keep up for any length of time, so leisure reading just doesn't fit.
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I find that going through a text a couple of times fast as opposed to once slowly helps with both recall and highlighting the important points.
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Especially if you pause to take notes once in a while and try to write down the important points without referencing the book in between readings.
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After each story is a short section with the word count of the book to save time calculating your reading speed, and the last story of each section has some simple questions to get a ballpark of your retention while reading at an increased speed.
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I hope that this is as useful to others as it has been to me.
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<a href="/assets/files/SpeedReadingWorkbook.epub" download>Epub Download here</a><br><a href="/assets/files/SpeedReadingWorkbook.pdf" download>PDF Download here</a>
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Thanks for reading.
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Any feedback on this is welcome.
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I am looking into the possiblity of making a tool that lets you add the speed reading formatting of your choice to your own text on this website.
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That would let people make their own practice material if they wanted more then what was in the book.
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