Line length is bad. You know you have this problem when you can’t control it on screen. Your eyes wander almost twenty inches until you arrive at the start of the following sentence when you are reading through a long article that takes up your entire laptop screen. The piece isn’t poorly written, the page’s […]

Do you have any idea how many pages you can read per hour? If you’re like most people, you do. And if you’re realy good at it, you’ve trained yourself to use a stopwatch to measure how quickly you read. Faster is better. Right? Wrong. Speed is a red herring. How quickly you move your […]

Do you know how fast you read? If I asked you to time yourself on a random page in a book once, you’d tell me that you churn through about 240 words per minute. That sounds like a handy number… until you realize you’re trying to apply it to some technical manual or dense textbook […]

Have a 300-page textbook for your test in two days? Do you start panicking as soon as you see those last three hundred pages? Your eyes starts flipping through book at light-speed… Without tracking anything on the page. You think “I’m reading really fast! I must be making progress! Unfortunately, reading faster isn’t automatically better […]