OT: Speed reading

[Walter Bright]

On 8/30/2012 1:45 AM, xenon325 wrote:
> In the context of learning to learn. Have anyone tried speed
> reading [1] ?
>
> I'm thinking about taking a course. Seems to be extremely useful,
> but effort is pretty big (few hours each day for few months, and
> I'm ... let's say not really disciplined) and opponents bash it
> quite heavy (e.g. very superficial understanding of the text)

Speed reading works fine when reading a bestseller novel. It's a complete 
failure at reading intellectually dense material.