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From: smh@rduxb.UUCP (henning)
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Subject: Re: Advice on Speed-reading Courses
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Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 07:36:49 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  7 07:36:49 1985
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From the keys of Steve Henning, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, PA rduxb!smh

> >(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?
> 
> >(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.

I took such a course in college in 1958 and it was a real winner.  At that
time they used a combination of a camera shutter and a slide projector
called a tachistoscope to increase the number of syllables one could fix
on at one time and the retention of such information.  Most people at
least doubled or tripled speed and increased retention.  I have a feeling
that a very good speed reading course could be written on a computer.
It would be a lot more convenient and probably at least as good if you
don't need the psychological coaching.