(I plan to continuously update this page as I discover new resources. That’s why I use 50+ instead of a fix number for the title of this post.)
Articles
Overview
Definitions
- Meta guiding
- Skimming
- Subvocalization
- Vision span
- SQ3R
- Fixation
- Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP)
Speed reading
- Speed-Reading Techniques
- Speed Reading - How to Increase your Reading Speed
- How to Learn Speed Reading - WikiHow
- Double Your Reading Rate
- Speed Reading Basics
- Speed Reading - Substantially Raising Your Reading Speed (PDF)
- Double Your Reading Speed in One Hour
Marking
Motivation
Miscellaneous
- PhotoReading
- How to Read a Scientific Research Paper
- How to Read a Textbook
- How to Improve Reading Comprehension
- How to read a non-fiction book?
- Top 10 tips for effective blog reading
- A Quick and Dirty Reading Strategy When Time is Short
Collections of articles
- Articles about speed reading (links to 57 articles)
- Links to a Better Education - Reading (links to 51 articles)
- Links to a Better Education - Reading (SQ3R) (links to 17 articles)
- Links to a Better Education - Reading Textbooks (links to 20 articles)
- Links to a Better Education - Underlining (links to 16 articles)
- Study Guides and Strategies (links to 9 articles in the “Reading skills” section)
Courses
Books
- On the Art of Reading (or download from Bartleby)
- The Guide to Reading - the Pocket University Volume XXIII
Videos
- ZapReader tutorial
- Speed Reading Interview Part 1, Part 2
- Learn to Speed Read
- Speed Reading Practice #1, #2
- Marshall Speed Read
- bWare Speed Reading Exercises: Eye Muscle Exercise 101
- bWare Speed Reading Exercises: Word Recognition Exercise 101
- bWare Speed Reading Level 1, Level 2, Level 3
Tests
Applications
Speed reader
- Spreeder (web-based)
- ZAP reader (web-based)
- RSVP Reader (Firefox extension)
- Paragrasp (Firefox extension)
- Dictator (Windows or Linux)
- Speed Reader (Windows)
- Reading Acceleration Machine (Windows)
- Qwik Reader (Windows)
Summarizer
- Automatic Text Summarizer (web-based)
- Open Text Summarizer (Windows or Linux)


Comment by Donald Latumahina
9 23. June 2008, 1:04 pm o'clock |
V.Muralidharan.
Thanks for your kind words! I would love to help you. Unfortunately, my Internet connection is not fast enough for video conference.
Comment by Venugopalan Muralidharan
8 22. June 2008, 4:00 am o'clock |
Superb Collection I am a school administrator and teacher. Hatsoff to you.I want you to address my teachers through video conference. thank you vey much
V.Muralidharan
CEO & Correspondent
Veera savarkar Netaji Matriculation School
Agaram, Chennai -600082
India
Tel:04426703145
Comment by Donald Latumahina
7 20. April 2007, 9:04 am o'clock |
@Sham and Kim:
I love reading and I really feel the need to improve my reading skill. That’s why I compile this list. I’m glad if you also find it useful. Thanks for stopping by!
Comment by Kim
6 19. April 2007, 7:38 pm o'clock |
Incredible list! Thank you for putting together such a valuable resource.
Comment by Sham
5 19. April 2007, 11:29 am o'clock |
Hi Donald,
very comprehensive list. I am very fond of reading and this was very helpful to me,
Sham
Comment by Donald Latumahina
4 19. April 2007, 7:26 am o'clock |
Thanks, wvarner! I will include WordFlashReader when I update the list.
Comment by wvarner
3 18. April 2007, 10:06 pm o'clock |
Also check out WordFlashReader, which is another RSVP application which works on both Windows and Linux.
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