@hkz@mastodon.technology
I experimented with many speed reading techniques myself and I agree they are all complete bogus. Comprehension actually gives the illusion of speed instead.

One with a background in entrepreneurship can go through 4 Hour Work Week pretty quick, but the same person without classical literature experience will need a whole month to finish something by James Joyce.

On the other hand with the viable methods listed in the article, visual reading is an interesting one - if I can imagine a scene from a book in my head, that section goes by pretty quickly, and at the same time I retain a lot because I turned them into movie scenes in my head.

In the end of the day speed shouldn't be a judgement factor for reading. Comprehension is individual. Everyone will approach different books at different speeds.