Forty years ago, Donald Homa, a professor of psychology at Arizona State University specializing in memory and the visual perception of linguistic stimuli, was contacted by officials at the American ...

Covers of new editions of books by Franz Kafka. (Photo: MICHAL CIZEK/AFP/Getty Images) “The prospect of speed reading—reading at an increased speed without any loss of comprehension—has undeniable ...

When you're crunched for time, life hacks and time-savers may seem especially tantalizing. Speed-reading courses promise to improve reading speed without sacrificing accuracy, but do they really help?

Readers ‘should be wary of promises to increase speed with no cost to comprehension’, say researchers Despite the wishes of all those of us with a teetering to-be-read pile, companies and apps that ...

Apps such as Spreeder and Spritz are bringing speed reading back into fashion. But what gets lost in this race for the last page? This article contains 1,993 words. If you were to read it to the end, ...

Boston-based tech startup Spritz recently released a new speed-reading technology that will soon become embedded in the many websites, apps and other wearable devices increasingly common to daily ...

There’s good reason to wish you could read faster. Not only do excellent book recommendations come out faster than you can note down the titles, more or less actually make it from cover to cover, but ...

The definition for speed-reading is pretty self-explanatory: it is a set of techniques that are specifically designed to be utilised by a person to improve their ability to read faster than before.

Ashley Sanders is a doctoral candidate in the department of history at Michigan State University. You can follow her on Twitter at @throughthe_veil or on her blog, Colonialism Through the Veil. I have ...