After a lot of practice I ultimately came to the conclusion that it doesn't really work. I could 'read' the pages really fast, but it's not what I'd call readin

After a lot of practice I ultimately came to the conclusion that it doesn't really work. I could 'read' the pages really fast, but it's not what I'd call reading. It's skimming. I believe this was shown in a study where experimenters gave reading selections to self-proclaimed speed-readers without telling them that the text was actually two separate texts mixed together (i.e. so that line 1 was from book A, line 2 was from book B, line 3 from book A, and so on). The idea being, of course, to see if they could really comprehend what they were reading, since the fact that this was a jumbled mess would be apparent to any careful reader within seconds. Of course, the punchline is that none of the speed-readers even noticed it, which should give some indication as to the level of comprehension that can be achieved via speed-reading.