Speed Read Anything: How to Read a Book a Day with Better Retention Than Ever (Learning How to Learn 15) Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Peter Hollins (Author, Publisher), Russell Newton (Narrator)

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A few simple changes to tripling your current reading speed.

Imagine how much time you could save. We all have material we need to read. Enjoyable or not, we still need to get through it. What if you could get through it faster and have even better retention than before? Scientifically proven methods of optimally absorbing information.

Speed Read Anything is your essential guide to the topic. You will learn tips and tricks that will transform your entire attitude toward reading. What you thought you knew about speed reading will be turned upside-down, and everyone will ask you for your secrets. All you need to do is point them to this book. Break you slow reading habits and develop your visual concentration.

Peter Hollins has studied psychology and peak human performance for over a dozen years and is a best-selling author. He has worked with a multitude of individuals to unlock their potential and path toward success. His writing draws on his academic, coaching, and research experience.

How to skim and scan anything with speed and understanding
Learn the myths of speed reading that everyone believes
How to preview a text in the most efficient manner
Strategically training your eyes to ignore
How to stop reading aloud in your head
How to read by concepts rather than individual words
Accelerate your reading, memory, and comprehension

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2 hours and 11 minutes
Author

Peter Hollins
Narrator

Russell Newton
Audible release date

April 21, 2021
Language

English
Publisher

Peter Hollins
ASIN

B0933MRRT8
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	2 hours and 11 minutes
Author	Peter Hollins
Narrator	Russell Newton
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com Release Date	April 21, 2021
Publisher	Peter Hollins
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B0933MRRT8
Best Sellers Rank	#52,759 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #112 in Neuro-Linguistic Programming #210 in Words, Language & Grammar (Audible Books & Originals) #259 in Reading Skills Reference (Books)

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No substance mostly filler

Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2021

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It's a very short book with only 4 chapters, but every chapter is padded with a summary and the book ends with a summary, so mostly repeat content.

The book's title says read a book a day but the first chapter begins by stating it's "biologically impossible" to read fast and goes into a long discussion about the reason.

The next chapter doesn't discuss reading but everything you should do to prepare for reading. This chapter makes up 40% of the book, but has nothing to do with actually reading, only systems like SQR3 or 4P's on how to start reading.

The next chapter finally gets to the "meat and bones" as Peter calls it to actually increase the speed of reading, but is only three outdated tips sub-vocalization, word-chunking, and skimming. He himself admits subvocalization doesn't always work and he he barely gives any instruction on word-chunking, only a link to another resource.

The last chapter is suppose to offer tips on improving comprehension but mainly covers eye fitness and not comprehension. Then he spends four paragraphs recommending someone else's book David Butler's Speed Reading with the Right Brain, which is terrible.

There are some tips on retention but there are very simple like take notes, summarize, and use mind maps.

Very little of this short book with a lot of summaries is on speed reading with the author not convinced that it is even possible, which explains why he doesn't give direct tips to increasing reading, only padded fillers.

I would not recommend it, definitely skip this book.

35 people found this helpful

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Robert Beard

Although I Use Speed Reading This Book Was Very Useful to Me

Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2021

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I guess I first picked up speed reading techniques, consciously, or unconsciously in the 7th grade and honed these skills in high school. By the time I got to college and grad school these skills were very important to me. However, I have always wanted to read as fast as possible while retaining what I had read. Peter Hollis’s work was a good refresher course, but more than that, his discussion of the value of pre-reading, and techniques to classify information, and to retain it through various techniques, such as mind maps and knowledge trees was extremely worthwhile. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to improve their reading speed and comprehension of what they have just read.

20 people found this helpful

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T Ellis

Extremely helpful

Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2021

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I got a lot out of this book. Even though I read pretty fast already, my long-range retention is very poor. This book had a lot of concrete information that was presented in an engaging fashion, and I think if I put its suggestions into practice, I will be a much better learner. And the title is sort of misleading. It's not so much about *speed* reading as it is about *effective* reading.

11 people found this helpful

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Sami Abdallah

Awesome Book!!!

Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2021

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Great read, Explaining the techniques directly with no non-sense details. Speed reading is a journey, you won’t read the book and wake up the next morning speed reader. You must put the time practicing, that is what Peter addresses right on.. highly recommended for those of us where reading is a daily essential ingredient of survival like the air we breathe…

9 people found this helpful

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Min

Empowering to speed read

Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2021

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Speed reading and retaining all the information read is a skill for life. This book contains very useful tips on how to do so! Time is an asset and we have such limited amounts of it.. so if you're a person who likes (or doesn't like) reading, read this first!

Skimming and scanning is helpful, and this book helps you strategize and read by concepts. Awesome and empowering! Recommended to everybody

7 people found this helpful

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GrumpyOldMan

New things for me

Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2021

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When I was young, Evelyn Wood Speed Reading was the only game in town as far as I knew. It didn't help me much, but I blame myself mostly since my mind was not on cerebral matters at the time (21 years old, Viet Nam getting hot, etc.). This book has helped me to speed up even while reading it. I tried some of the suggestions and they seemed to work. In any case, it's a fairly short read and anyone not already familiar with the concepts in the book might find improvement in reading speed just as I did, that is: Right away.

5 people found this helpful

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Taher Abdel-Hameed

Good Material but very poor eBook formating!

Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2021

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I'd give 4-stars for the material especially for the beginners but less than 1-star for the eBook format!
** Comments on book material: good collection of practical tips on speed reading. Yes there are some repeated parts and fillers but generally it's good material to start explore this skill.

** Comments on eBook formating: it's very bad! No table of contents (in Kindle menu) or even worse there is no titles/headings/subheading! All the texts is the same format which made it a chunk of text! It's one of the worst reading experience that I had! Ironically it's about speed reading and the format it totally against that! Especially what mentioned in Ch2: Pre-Reading.

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Dina

Great!

Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2021

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I liked that it used other books as examples. So many speed reading books do not. It gets to the point. There were even a few things I've never heard of before.

7 people found this helpful

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Utter utter bollocks

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 25, 2021

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If you can't get by with the kgb method try rubbing your hands vigorously over the book for a bit of osmosis

10 people found this helpful

FTF

It is at least a quick read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 14, 2022

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But when you get to the end and he's suggesting that for eye health you avoid sunglasses... Because you can trap radiation in the eyes... You wonder if anything he says is to be trusted.

But a reminder not to sub vocalise is useful, if nothing else

4 people found this helpful

Kindle Customer

Time waster!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 12, 2022

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His methods, e.g. KGB or 4Ps, make "speed" reading a nonsense. Each of these simply add to the time it takes to read the text, thereby making it no speedier than simply getting on with reading!

2 people found this helpful

Lewis Thorn

99.9% filler content. Waste of time.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 6, 2021

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The amount of useful information in this book could've been written on a pamphlet.

5 people found this helpful

OFRANC29

This will really help me to digest more texts!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 16, 2022

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Really good tips and tricks for becoming a speed reader. I always wished that I could download books directly into my brain, like the in the Matrix movie. I guess this is the next best thing for now 🙂

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