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Reading Fast and Slow

Benjamin Bergen Ph.D. on July 31, 2014

A new generation of speed-reading apps have appeared over the past year, boldly advertizing that they can double, triple, even quadruple your reading pace. They claim to use scientific principles that allow you to read not just faster but while expending less effort and without compromising comprehension. And for only a few bucks! Sound too good to be true? It is.

A new generation of speed-reading apps have appeared over the past year, boldly advertizing that they can double, triple, even quadruple your reading pace. They claim to use scientific principles that allow you to read not just faster but while expending less effort and without compromising comprehension. And for only a few bucks! Sound too good to be true? It is.