> If I read Pride and Prejudice I'll do it for my own enjoyment, at whatever pace I like. ...and some people will want to read it fast, with a tool like this.

> If I read Pride and Prejudice I'll do it for my own enjoyment, at whatever pace I like. ...and some people will want to read it fast, with a tool like this. There are more nuanced answers to why someone might want to speed read certain texts but in response to your post I believe that is enough. Even as an avid reader, I know there is a time and place for different techniques and there's no harm in general to using tools like this (even for novels, etc.). I do think that people should, if they can, learn to enjoy reading at some point and that if this became the norm for reading in school there would be a problem, but until then...