I too have a hard time reading most books of fiction, and have spent a lifetime of reading nonfiction though. I will read great authors like Vladimir Nabokov.

I too have a hard time reading most books of fiction, and have spent a lifetime of reading nonfiction though. I will read great authors like Vladimir Nabokov. In college, I went from a average student to one of the better students when I changed the way I took notes(I started to draw visual pictures on each page of notes, so I could recall each page with close to idetic accuracy.) In her article she stated,"It’s even better when books use it too: the easiest textbooks for me to read were the computer science books with syntax-highlighting. Unfortunately, this was not most of them. Code can also often be represented visually: I highly recommend the HeadFirst series in particular [2)." I have found 95% of computer programming books are 500 pages of blocked typed, verbose, horribly written Phone books. They are slowly changing though. I don't know if I am dyslectic, but I had a horrid time in school--especially with language. Right now the only foreign language I would attempt is Chinese. I heard most words are one syllable, and the words are visual pictures.