X-Message-Number: 15967
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 19:02:35 -0500
From: James Swayze <>
Subject: Oops! Should have been titled Speed reading software
References: <>

CryoNet wrote:

> CryoNet - Wed 28 Mar 2001
>
>     #15956: Re: CryoNet #15948 - #15953 [James Swayze]
>
> Message #15956
> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 15:33:35 -0500
> From: James Swayze <>
> Subject: Re: CryoNet #15948 - #15953
> References: <>
>
> John de Rivaz wrote:
> >
> > The sudden flurry of book recommendations that have appeared here suggest
> > that someone ought to start selling speed reading courses/software or
> > whatever. There does seem to be a growing problem of information overload.

Then I wrote:

> John, here is a speed reading software device. Studies show we can read much
> faster if the words are shown one after the other rapidly and in the same

> location each time. This program allows you to import text then it displays it
in

> this fashion. It also helps one learn speed reading by allowing adjustment 
from

> one word to a line of words to be displayed successively as if scanning down a

> page of text. The key to speed reading is to learn how to not sound the words 
out

> internally at conversation speed. It's not easy to do and maintain 
comprehension
> but practice helps.
>
> http://www.stepware.com/acereader.html

> John de Rivas wrote:


> > However many books have a single message - the rest of the book explains why
> > the writer thinks this message is important. It can indeed be a useful
> > service for cryonet posters to summarise that message and if people want to
> > understand the underlying thought behind it **and they have the time** they
> > can read it up. In the case of many of the recommendations on cryonet those
> > who have read the books concerned are providing a very useful service in
> > distilling out those points which are of use and relevance to cryonicists

Then I wrote:

> This would be nice since some of us can't afford to buy every book suggested.
> Cliff notes for cryonet?


I recapped this in case it was missed by anyone due to my mistake of not 
properly titling it.

James
--
Some of our views are spacious
some are merely space--RUSH

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