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  New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions can be improved Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 15:35 -0500
    Re: New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions can be improved jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-08 21:09 +0000
      Re: New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions can be improved Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 16:20 -0500
        Re: New research suggests that one of humanity's most important inventions can be improved Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 14:37 -0700
          Re: New research suggests that one of humanity's most important inventions can be improved jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-08 21:52 +0000
            Re: New research suggests that one of humanity's most important inventions can be improved Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2015-09-09 05:43 -0700
        Re: Spamming ass hat repastes crap jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-08 21:46 +0000
    Re: New research suggests that one of humanity's most important inventions can be improved "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 16:39 -0700
    Re: New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions can be improved gilber34 <invalid@invalid.com> - 2015-09-08 18:57 -0500
      Re: New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions can be improved jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-09 02:24 +0000
        Re: New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions can be improved Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 21:38 -0500
          Re: die spammer, die jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-09 03:36 +0000
        Re: New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions can be improved benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 23:02 -0400
          Re: New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions can be improved gilber34 <invalid@invalid.com> - 2015-09-09 07:17 -0500
        Re: New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions can be improved benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 23:27 -0400
    Re: New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions can be improved HVAC <Mr.HVAC@gmail.com> - 2015-09-09 05:55 -0400

#519814 — New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions can be improved

New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions 
can be improved
> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/using-technology-to-break-the-speed-barrier-of-reading/


   If one thinks this doesn't apply to reading physics texts, one
   would be wrong.


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#519829

Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> New research suggests that one of humanity?s most important inventions 
> can be improved
>> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/using-technology-to-break-the-speed-barrier-of-reading/
> 
> 
>   If one thinks this doesn't apply to reading physics texts, one
>   would be wrong.
 
That is a very puerile linkage, spamming ass hat.

How to design fonts for readablity has been well known for a very long
time, ass hole, and the majority of problems with fonts is the invention
of the PC and the resulting craze for fonts for all occasions used by
half wits with absolutely no sense of prior art.

Speed reading was taught in high school over a half a century ago and
seems to be something that for some reason has fallen out of fashion.

It is fairly trivial to learn how to speed read and doesn't take that
long to learn, you spamming piece of shit.
 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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#519833

On 9/8/15 4:09 PM, Nasty Name-calling jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> That is a very puerile linkage, spamming ass hat.
>
> How to design fonts for readablity has been well known for a very long
> time, ass hole, and the majority of problems with fonts is the invention
> of the PC and the resulting craze for fonts for all occasions used by
> half wits with absolutely no sense of prior art.
>
> Speed reading was taught in high school over a half a century ago and
> seems to be something that for some reason has fallen out of fashion.
>
> It is fairly trivial to learn how to speed read and doesn't take that
> long to learn, you spamming piece of shit.


   The jimp *really needs to attend those anger management* classes.
   See: Rancho Cucamonga Anger Management Classes
> http://www.yellowpages.com/rancho-cucamonga-ca/anger-management-classes


   New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important
   inventions can be improved
> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/using-technology-to-break-the-speed-barrier-of-reading/


> I grew up in a tiny New York City apartment, packed in alongside our
> four cats and my father’s immense personal library of some 3000
> books. My father designed books for a living, and he revered them.
> His books were everywhere in the apartment, covering every possible
> surface in the house, the radiators and toilet tanks included. To my
> father, these books were objects of art: beautiful to hold, beautiful
> to look at, and beautiful to read.
>
> Though my father’s outsized romance with books didn’t entirely rub
> off on me, he did instill in me an appreciation for the book as a
> technological invention, a remarkable piece of engineering whose
> importance is arguably like none other ever devised. And yet, given
> that at its core reading is nothing more than a tool, engineered
> around a set of compromises and constraints, it’s far from perfect.
>
> Unfortunately, the system of reading we inherited from the ancient
> scribes —the method of reading you are most likely using right now —
> has been fundamentally shaped by engineering constraints that were
> relevant in centuries past, but no longer appropriate in our
> information age. When books were scarce, and few people could read,
> the fact that some inherent flaw in the design of reading may have
> hindered reading was not much of a concern. But today, in an era of
> computers —where it is possible to instantly download virtually any
> book ever published and read it on a device we carry in our pockets—
> what limits our reading is the capacity of the brain to absorb the
> available content.  The problem of our millennium is that we simply
> can’t seem to get the information into our minds fast enough to
> satisfy our needs.
>
> What may have seemed like a good design idea for reading a millennium
> ago, may not be such a good idea today. Take for example the shape
> and spacing of letters. In the centuries before the printing press
> was invented, it took scribes an inordinate amount of time to pen a
> book. Therefore, the need to work quickly likely influenced the
> design of our letter shapes, as these were formed to make their
> drawing by hand as fluid and rapid as possible. Other design
> constraints we inherited from the past, no longer relevant today,
> relate to the high cost of materials. Parchment was expensive. So
> letters were designed to compress and cram the symbols on a page — so
> much so that spacing and even punctuation came to be omitted and had
> to be introduced in the 12th Century to facilitate reading.

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#519840 — Re: New research suggests that one of humanity's most important inventions can be improved

On Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at 5:20:34 PM UTC-4, Sam Wormley wrote:
> On 9/8/15 4:09 PM, Nasty Name-calling jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> > That is a very puerile linkage, spamming ass hat.
> >
> > How to design fonts for readablity has been well known for a very long
> > time, ass hole, and the majority of problems with fonts is the invention
> > of the PC and the resulting craze for fonts for all occasions used by
> > half wits with absolutely no sense of prior art.
> >
> > Speed reading was taught in high school over a half a century ago and
> > seems to be something that for some reason has fallen out of fashion.
> >
> > It is fairly trivial to learn how to speed read and doesn't take that
> > long to learn, you spamming piece of shit.
> 
>    The jimp *really needs to attend those anger management* classes.
>    See: Rancho Cucamonga Anger Management Classes
> > http://www.yellowpages.com/rancho-cucamonga-ca/anger-management-classes

The Sam, You, your facade of politeness masks an anger beyond measure,
especially not by any known to man Physics. You are about to burst for
we humans persist living on On ON... Sam's students beware. Follow
Sam's hands carefully at his every lecture where he routinely wishes
you/us/we were all dead. We/us/you exhale CO_2 on his precious Earth.

>    New research suggests that one of humanity's most important
>    inventions can be improved
> > http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/using-technology-to-break-the-speed-barrier-of-reading/

I speed read that article too, and I did not care at all for That Font!

'Our theory, based on our eye tracking study, is that short lines help
some people who otherwise struggle because they serve to guide
attention during reading, and promote forward tracking in the text.'

Like humans with short attention spans contribute anything useful.

> -- 
> 
> sci.physics is an unmoderated newsgroup dedicated
> to the discussion of physics, news from the physics
> community, and physics-related social issues.

-- Mahipal

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#519848 — Re: New research suggests that one of humanity's most important inventions can be improved

Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at 5:20:34 PM UTC-4, Sam Wormley wrote:
>> On 9/8/15 4:09 PM, Nasty Name-calling jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>> > That is a very puerile linkage, spamming ass hat.
>> >
>> > How to design fonts for readablity has been well known for a very long
>> > time, ass hole, and the majority of problems with fonts is the invention
>> > of the PC and the resulting craze for fonts for all occasions used by
>> > half wits with absolutely no sense of prior art.
>> >
>> > Speed reading was taught in high school over a half a century ago and
>> > seems to be something that for some reason has fallen out of fashion.
>> >
>> > It is fairly trivial to learn how to speed read and doesn't take that
>> > long to learn, you spamming piece of shit.
>> 
>>    The jimp *really needs to attend those anger management* classes.
>>    See: Rancho Cucamonga Anger Management Classes
>> > http://www.yellowpages.com/rancho-cucamonga-ca/anger-management-classes
> 
> The Sam, You, your facade of politeness masks an anger beyond measure,
> especially not by any known to man Physics. You are about to burst for
> we humans persist living on On ON... Sam's students beware. Follow
> Sam's hands carefully at his every lecture where he routinely wishes
> you/us/we were all dead. We/us/you exhale CO_2 on his precious Earth.
> 
>>    New research suggests that one of humanity's most important
>>    inventions can be improved
>> > http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/using-technology-to-break-the-speed-barrier-of-reading/
> 
> I speed read that article too, and I did not care at all for That Font!
> 
> 'Our theory, based on our eye tracking study, is that short lines help
> some people who otherwise struggle because they serve to guide
> attention during reading, and promote forward tracking in the text.'
> 
> Like humans with short attention spans contribute anything useful.

When one learns how to speed read, one's eyes do not move back and 
forth; one learns to take in the entire line.

Ergo short lines are a crutch for those that do not know how to read
in the first place.


-- 
Jim Pennino

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#519946 — Re: New research suggests that one of humanity's most important inventions can be improved

On Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at 6:01:07 PM UTC-4, ji...@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at 5:20:34 PM UTC-4, Sam Wormley wrote:
> >> On 9/8/15 4:09 PM, Nasty Name-calling jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> >> > That is a very puerile linkage, spamming ass hat.
> >> >
> >> > How to design fonts for readablity has been well known for a very long
> >> > time, ass hole, and the majority of problems with fonts is the invention
> >> > of the PC and the resulting craze for fonts for all occasions used by
> >> > half wits with absolutely no sense of prior art.
> >> >
> >> > Speed reading was taught in high school over a half a century ago and
> >> > seems to be something that for some reason has fallen out of fashion.
> >> >
> >> > It is fairly trivial to learn how to speed read and doesn't take that
> >> > long to learn, you spamming piece of shit.
> >> 
> >>    The jimp *really needs to attend those anger management* classes.
> >>    See: Rancho Cucamonga Anger Management Classes
> >> > http://www.yellowpages.com/rancho-cucamonga-ca/anger-management-classes
> > 
> > The Sam, You, your facade of politeness masks an anger beyond measure,
> > especially not by any known to man Physics. You are about to burst for
> > we humans persist living on On ON... Sam's students beware. Follow
> > Sam's hands carefully at his every lecture where he routinely wishes
> > you/us/we were all dead. We/us/you exhale CO_2 on his precious Earth.

My messages are apparently not in Sam's preferred font, since he Sam
never ever neither reads -- speedily or otherwise -- nor responds to
me. It's gotta be m(y)Font! Blame it on the Font, that's me ticket...

Better than, Sam wishes me dead and merely treats me as if I already was.

> >>    New research suggests that one of humanity's most important
> >>    inventions can be improved
> >> > http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/using-technology-to-break-the-speed-barrier-of-reading/
> > 
> > I speed read that article too, and I did not care at all for That Font!
> > 
> > 'Our theory, based on our eye tracking study, is that short lines help
> > some people who otherwise struggle because they serve to guide
> > attention during reading, and promote forward tracking in the text.'
> > 
> > Like humans with short attention spans contribute anything useful.
> 
> When one learns how to speed read, one's eyes do not move back and 
> forth; one learns to take in the entire line.

What do people reading via Braille do? Fast fingerings?

> Ergo short lines are a crutch for those that do not know how to read
> in the first place.

I agree with that. See what I did there? He he...

Regardless of what speed reading is or is not, I just read. When I get
bored, I seek a new page. I am a major fan of The Gutenberg Project. I
get to search+read the greats. Copyrights all expired, still Writers.

> -- 
> Jim Pennino

-- Mahipal 'Math by Braille? Hmmm... is there an App for that?!'

NevermindMeIsmIshQ: Braille assignments have also been created for
mathematical and musical notation. However, because the six-dot
braille cell allows only 64 (2^6) patterns, including the space, the
characters of a braille script commonly have multiple values,
depending on their context. That is, character mapping between print
and braille is not one-to-one. (This per MAC+Wikipedia+Dictionary App.)

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#519846 — Re: Spamming ass hat repastes crap

Spamming Asshole <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/8/15 4:09 PM, Nasty Name-calling jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>> That is a very puerile linkage, spamming ass hat.
>>
>> How to design fonts for readablity has been well known for a very long
>> time, ass hole, and the majority of problems with fonts is the invention
>> of the PC and the resulting craze for fonts for all occasions used by
>> half wits with absolutely no sense of prior art.
>>
>> Speed reading was taught in high school over a half a century ago and
>> seems to be something that for some reason has fallen out of fashion.
>>
>> It is fairly trivial to learn how to speed read and doesn't take that
>> long to learn, you spamming piece of shit.
> 
> 
>   The jimp *really needs to 

The spamming ass hat needs to fuck off and die.

Repasting the same idiotic crap does not make it either on topic
nor anything other than arm waving crap, shit for brains.


-- 
Jim Pennino

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#519868 — Re: New research suggests that one of humanity's most important inventions can be improved

On Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at 1:35:04 PM UTC-7, Sam Wormley wrote:
> New research suggests that one of humanity's most important inventions 
> can be improved
> > http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/using-technology-to-break-the-speed-barrier-of-reading/
> 
> 
>    If one thinks this doesn't apply to reading physics texts, one
>    would be wrong.
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> sci.physics is an unmoderated newsgroup dedicated
> to the discussion of physics, news from the physics
> community, and physics-related social issues.

Sam Speed reading is no fun if you are reading stuff that is great interest.Just finished a grewat novel "Morgan Run" No fun speed reading I loved every word.Took a week to finish.Make a great movie.  TreBert

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#519875

On 9/8/2015 3:35 PM, Sam Wormley wrote:
> New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions
> can be improved
>> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/using-technology-to-break-the-speed-barrier-of-reading/
>>
>
>
>    If one thinks this doesn't apply to reading physics texts, one
>    would be wrong.
>
>

who speed reads physics textbooks ??

-- only one who already knows the material.

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#519892

gilber34 <invalid@invalid.com> wrote:
> On 9/8/2015 3:35 PM, Sam Wormley wrote:
>> New research suggests that one of humanity?s most important inventions
>> can be improved
>>> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/using-technology-to-break-the-speed-barrier-of-reading/
>>>
>>
>>
>>    If one thinks this doesn't apply to reading physics texts, one
>>    would be wrong.
>>
>>
> 
> who speed reads physics textbooks ??
> 
> -- only one who already knows the material.

Therein lies the rub; only a very few people can speed read mathematics
with understanding and any decent physic text is heavy with mathematics,
except of those of the spamming ass hat which are heavy with cardboard
pop ups.


-- 
Jim Pennino

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#519895

On 9/8/15 9:24 PM, nasty name-caller jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> Therein lies the rub; only a very few people can speed read mathematics
> with understanding and any decent physic text is heavy with mathematics,
> except of those of the spamming ass hat which are heavy with cardboard
> pop ups.


   Now, jimp, you might hurt my feelings--the pop up holograms clarify
   many a physics diagram.

   JIMP, you really need to take these classes. See: Rancho Cucamonga
   Anger Management Classes
> http://www.yellowpages.com/rancho-cucamonga-ca/anger-management-classes




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#519907 — Re: die spammer, die

Spamming Asshat <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/8/15 9:24 PM, nasty name-caller jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>> Therein lies the rub; only a very few people can speed read mathematics
>> with understanding and any decent physic text is heavy with mathematics,
>> except of those of the spamming ass hat which are heavy with cardboard
>> pop ups.
> 
> 
>   Now, jimp, you might hurt my feelings

Enough that you will fuck off and die soon, spamming ass hole?

-- 
Jim Pennino

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#519897

On 09/08/2015 10:24 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> gilber34 <invalid@invalid.com> wrote:
>> On 9/8/2015 3:35 PM, Sam Wormley wrote:
>>> New research suggests that one of humanity?s most important inventions
>>> can be improved
>>>> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/using-technology-to-break-the-speed-barrier-of-reading/
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     If one thinks this doesn't apply to reading physics texts, one
>>>     would be wrong.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> who speed reads physics textbooks ??
>>
>> -- only one who already knows the material.
>
> Therein lies the rub; only a very few people can speed read mathematics
> with understanding and any decent physic text is heavy with mathematics,
> except of those of the spamming ass hat which are heavy with cardboard
> pop ups.

Gosh, Good old SciAm! They are impressed that the visiting MIT professor 
discovered that some fonts are easier to read than others and that 
unlike a hand-drawn book by a scribe they are very easy to change with 
today's computer technology! Wow! That is HERB level thinking! Oh ya! 
Give SciAm the Nobel prize in science journalism!

Years ago I took speed reading courses with wild claims of reading 1000 
words a minute etc. with total comprehension. Well, hardly. Sure, 
getting rid of some bad habits helps. And if you are reading a bunch of 
liberal fantasy bullshit you can blast right through it grabbing the 
high points. But REAL reading isn't like that. REAL reading is reading 
with thinking and assimilation. Obviously Wormley never does any real 
reading. No wonder he loves the fantasies at phys.org.

The bottom line for me was this: Speed reading techniques can indeed 
boost your reading speed. And eliminating time-wasting habits is good. 
BUT what happens is that greater speed at comprehension levels takes 
greater concentration. In short, the more effort and energy you put into 
reading the faster you can go! But nobody really wants to do that all 
the time. Sure maybe in an emergency (exam tomorrow and you haven't done 
squat yet) the added effort pays off, but normally it's just something 
you can do but really usually don't want to bother with.



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#519941

On 9/8/2015 10:02 PM, benj wrote:
> On 09/08/2015 10:24 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>> gilber34 <invalid@invalid.com> wrote:
>>> On 9/8/2015 3:35 PM, Sam Wormley wrote:
>>>> New research suggests that one of humanity?s most important inventions
>>>> can be improved
>>>>> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/using-technology-to-break-the-speed-barrier-of-reading/

>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     If one thinks this doesn't apply to reading physics texts, one
>>>>     would be wrong.
>>>>

>>>
>>> who speed reads physics textbooks ??
>>>
>>> -- only one who already knows the material.

>> Therein lies the rub; only a very few people can speed read mathematics
>> with understanding and any decent physic text is heavy with mathematics,
>> except of those of the spamming ass hat which are heavy with cardboard
>> pop ups.

> Gosh, Good old SciAm! They are impressed that the visiting MIT professor
> discovered that some fonts are easier to read than others and that
> unlike a hand-drawn book by a scribe they are very easy to change with
> today's computer technology! Wow! That is HERB level thinking! Oh ya!
> Give SciAm the Nobel prize in science journalism!

if they give SciAm a price, it must be in Arial Narrow size 4, and give 
them bottle glasses to read it.

Then give SciAm THE "prize" for having the most  "non-scientific 
contract journalists",

and also for revising "scientific articles", that previously excluded 
most american peoples, into more inclusive "political sciency-like 
conjector and speculation articles" for the masses.

>
> Years ago I took speed reading courses with wild claims of reading 1000
> words a minute etc. with total comprehension. Well, hardly. Sure,
> getting rid of some bad habits helps. And if you are reading a bunch of
> liberal fantasy bullshit you can blast right through it grabbing the
> high points. But REAL reading isn't like that. REAL reading is reading
> with thinking and assimilation. Obviously Wormley never does any real
> reading. No wonder he loves the fantasies at phys.org.

he should go to the source of the phys.org articles, read thoses,
most of them do *not agree at all* with the spin *phys.org* puts on them.

>
> The bottom line for me was this: Speed reading techniques can indeed
> boost your reading speed. And eliminating time-wasting habits is good.
> BUT what happens is that greater speed at comprehension levels takes
> greater concentration. In short, the more effort and energy you put into
> reading the faster you can go! But nobody really wants to do that all
> the time. Sure maybe in an emergency (exam tomorrow and you haven't done
> squat yet) the added effort pays off, but normally it's just something
> you can do but really usually don't want to bother with.

so true,
I just read that last paragraph, 96 words, in less than 4 seconds or at 
more than 1,440 words per min.

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#519902

On 09/08/2015 10:24 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> gilber34 <invalid@invalid.com> wrote:
>> On 9/8/2015 3:35 PM, Sam Wormley wrote:
>>> New research suggests that one of humanity?s most important inventions
>>> can be improved
>>>> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/using-technology-to-break-the-speed-barrier-of-reading/
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     If one thinks this doesn't apply to reading physics texts, one
>>>     would be wrong.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> who speed reads physics textbooks ??
>>
>> -- only one who already knows the material.
>
> Therein lies the rub; only a very few people can speed read mathematics
> with understanding and any decent physic text is heavy with mathematics,
> except of those of the spamming ass hat which are heavy with cardboard
> pop ups.

The ASSHAT thinks that Phys.org produces science articles! Hell, he even 
thinks that Scientific American is still a science magazine like the old 
days.



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On 9/8/2015 4:35 PM, Sam Wormley wrote:
> New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions
> can be improved
>> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/using-technology-to-break-the-speed-barrier-of-reading/
>>
>
>
>    If one thinks this doesn't apply to reading physics texts, one
>    would be wrong.


I took a speed reading course in high school. It used state of the art 
technology. In other words, you would put a book into a contraption that 
would lower a cover from the top down and you had to read fast enough to 
keep up with it. It actually would slow your reading down just fucking 
with it. However the tips for reading comprehension were  fantastic. I 
was an avid reader anyway and it probably tripled the speed that I could 
read at.

Forevermore I could read my Tom Swift Jr. books rapidly.

Ultrasonic Cycloplane anyone?


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