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From: tuba@ur-tut.UUCP (Jon Krueger)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Advice on Speed-reading Courses
Message-ID: <151@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 5-Oct-85 04:58:55 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct  5 04:58:55 1985
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In article <331@cylixd.UUCP> dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby) writes:
>Every so often a "free speed-reading lesson" comes to town, in an
>attempt to get you to sign up with the Evelyn Wood Speed-Reading
>Course.
>
>I have a few questions.
>
>(1) Is it worth the money? What do you get for your several hundred 
>bucks that you couldn't get in a book on speed-reading?
I doubt you get much from either, so I doubt it's worth the money.

>(2) Has anybody taken the course and been DISsatisfied with it?
I've never taken it; would be interested in hearing from someone who has.

>(3) Are there alternate courses that are cheaper or better (or both)?
Yes, there's an alternate course of action that's both.  Most studies
on speed reading and the like conclude that you can't increase your speed
much before you start losing comprehension.  Common sense tells you that
much of the material you've read in the past was not worth reading.  So
work on cutting bogus reading material out of your life and you'll
increase your effective reading speed without sacrificing comprehension.
You might start with netnews!! (-: (-: (-: . . . (-:?

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