Speed Read Anything: How to Read a Book a Day With Better Retention Than Ever

by Peter Hollins

A few simple changes to tripling your current reading speed. Imagine how much time you could save. We all have material we need to read. Enjoyable or not, we still need to get through it. What if you could get through it faster, and have even better retention than before? Scientifically-proven methods of optimally absorbing information. Speed Read Anything is your essential guide to the topic. You will learn tips and tricks that will transform your entire attitude towards reading. What you thought you knew about speed reading will be turned upside-down, and everyone will ask you for your secrets. All you need to do is point them to this book. Break your slow reading habits and develop your visual concentration. Peter Hollins has studied psychology and peak human performance for over a dozen years and is a bestselling author. He has worked with a multitude of individuals to unlock their potential and path towards success. His writing draws on his academic, coaching, and research experience. How to skim and scan anything with speed and understanding. • Learn the myths of speed reading that everyone believes • How to preview a text in the most efficient manner • Strategically training your eyes to ignore • How to stop reading aloud in your head • How to read by concepts rather than individual words Accelerate your reading, memory, and comprehension. Reading faster is the gateway to more learning opportunities. The more opportunities you have, the better your life will be. Empower yourself, and set yourself up for success. Reading is the key!

Genres: Productivity, Nonfiction, Self Help, How To

140 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 12, 2021

About the author

Peter Hollins is a bestselling author, human psychology researcher, and a student of the human condition. He possesses a BS in psychology and a graduate degree.

Reviews

[Sami Abdallah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome Book!!!

Great read, Explaining the techniques directly with no non-sense details. Speed reading is a journey, you won’t read the book and wake up the next morning speed reader. You must put the time practicing, that is what Peter addresses right on.. highly recommended for those of us where reading is a daily essential ingredient of survival like the air we breathe…

[Otis · Rating 5 out of 5]

This will really help me to digest more texts!

Really good tips and tricks for becoming a speed reader. I always wished that I could download books directly into my brain, like the in the Matrix movie. I guess this is the next best thing for now 🙂

[Gijs Limonard · Rating 5 out of 5]

Useful, practical manual on speed reading; no subvocalizing, optimize eye movements, word chunking, strategical skimming, key-word identification, idea visualization and dynamic comprehension, syntopical reading; good to get to know some technical terms for something you have been doing for quite some time now. Admittedly, this only works for non-ficton; but hey, you don't want to strategically skim The Brothers Karamazov, now do you?

"Since most people currently can’t separate subvocalization from comprehension, they are locked in at a rate of about 400–500 words per minute. Moving beyond that rate requires you to embrace that your mind and eyes read faster than your mouth."

[Gabriela Art · Rating 4 out of 5]

Muy buen escrito que aclara que para leer más y mejor a que leer a un ritmo que haga quen el texto sea digerible para cada uno, se trata de leer más pero también de que esto vaya acompañado de comprensión y retención de la información.

[Danilo Soto · Rating 3 out of 5]

Recomienda diferentes técnicas que al sumarlos se obtiene una reducción considerable al tiempo de lectura… también debe tomarse en cuenta el tipo de lectura para su aplicación y romper paradigmas del proceso de enseñanza aprendizaje.

[Taher · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good Material but very poor eBook formating!

I'd give 4-stars for the material especially for the beginners but less than 1-star for the eBook format!
** Comments on book material: good collection of practical tips on speed reading. Yes there are some repeated parts and fillers but generally it's good material to start explore this skill.

** Comments on eBook formating: it's very bad! No table of contents (in Kindle menu) or even worse there is no titles/headings/subheading! All the texts is the same format which made it a chunk of text! It's one of the worst reading experience that I had! Ironically it's about speed reading and the format it totally against that! Especially what mentioned in Ch2: Pre-Reading.

[Monsop Collado · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lectura rápida con comprensión, no una fórmula mágica


Peter Hollins ofrece una guía sólida y práctica para leer más rápido sin sacrificar la comprensión ni la retención. El libro resalta que la lectura veloz solo tiene sentido si va acompañada de entendimiento y memoria a largo plazo, algo que considero muy valioso. Presenta técnicas como la prelectura con TIPEAR, la formulación de preguntas, la lectura estratégica, la búsqueda de ideas clave, la toma de notas, resúmenes y repasos. Todas son herramientas útiles y aplicables para aprovechar mejor cada lectura.

No obstante, el motivo por el cual le doy cuatro y no cinco estrellas es que el título me parece más ambicioso que el contenido. El libro nunca llega a explicar de forma clara una “fórmula” para leer un libro completo en un día. Lo que sí ofrece es un conjunto de métodos y hábitos que ayudan a leer con mayor rapidez y comprensión, pero deja la promesa del título más como una inspiración que como un proceso concreto.

Si lo que buscas es mejorar tu sistema de lectura equilibrando velocidad, comprensión y retención, este libro es excelente. Pero si esperas un método directo para terminar cualquier libro en 24 horas, probablemente sientas que el título promete más de lo que el contenido entrega.

[Mart Oosterveld · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an okay book; it has some nice principles that I was able to apply while reading the book, and it is set up in such a way that the topics are comprehensible.
It lacks some depth though, and is mainly a collection of tips and tricks to help you read faster and understand more. The whole section about pre-reading threw me off a bit, since the author just throws techniques at you instead of making a stance about one approach and covering that in more detail.

[Evan Van Bremen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is what I can count as mini reading habits

There are few ideal methods does pique my interest if I wanted to be more knowledgeable. It is not hard but it takes a little bit effort at a time to get better with your reading skill.

[Marc Hirsch · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great

it was not enough to read books on speed reading, I had to reach a point where it was extremely important for me to be free to read as much as I wanted. This book reviewed what it takes at a time I was ready to listen.

[Ioannis Tirkides]

Concise and practical

This book is a quick read, yet comprehensive. It covers its subject totally in a practical way. You will know what you will need to do to improve your reading speed. It will take a lot of practice but you will know where to start and how to do it.

[Prabhanjan Shurpali · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short, practical

There are 2 parameters
Speed and Comprehension
It's a practical guide to understand about speed reading.
But need more information on how to read the technical documents

[José Pedro Azevedo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Speed Read Anuything

Very good guide to improve, the way you read, I tried all exercises and found out that they actually work. I would recommend it to anyone who need to read a lot but doesn't have a lot of time. Very good book.

[Anna Hui · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rereading this book the 2nd time to prepare for summer school. While reading it, I was also practicing the skill like eliminate subvocalization, chunking words etc. Actually it’s effective and it’s possible since I only had to spend 2 hours to finish this book, not bad for me (around 600 wpm?)

[Iain Bruce Wilson · Rating 1 out of 5]

Utter utter bollocks

If you can't get by with the kgb method try rubbing your hands vigorously over the book for a bit of osmosis

[Carlos Jeronimo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent speed reading techniques!

Exelent techniques and tips. It is a GREAT BOOK that greatly speed up my reading!
I highly recommend! Thank you!

[Juan P. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great source

Excellent source to start your speed reading. Five stars would be if I could speed read inmediatly. Altough is a very good material.

[Brooke Cushman · Rating 5 out of 5]

great content! who knew there were so many methods to practice to increase reading speed. excited to test all these methods out!

[Rajeev Vijay Kumar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent practical guide

I'm a novice at speed reading and this book gave me simple tips to improve it. I used to think this was woowoo, but it's just simple practical tips.

[Robert Krieg · Rating 5 out of 5]

All I remembered but stopped practicing!

This is the perfect read to put you back on tract to read the with gusto that you forgot was so enjoyable.

[Pierre Farah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Highly recommended

I surprisingly remember everything i learned in this book. It's got all the juicy details to teach us how to read, comprehend and retain fast. 10/10

[Diabasteros Fouris · Rating 5 out of 5]

While I knew most of these, it helped me realize a few fundamentals that are really need right now to read tons of books 📚

[Aghna Mahardhika · Rating 5 out of 5]

Concise, hands-on technique to improve reading and also comprehension skills.

[Brad · Rating 4 out of 5]

Worth the read

Short but effective. Practical tips and methods. Easy to read and worth the time.
Would definitely recommend. Need more words

[Hafiz Hussain · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nice book. There are practical suggestions that can improve reading, but for that, you need to commit. :)

[Andrés · Rating 5 out of 5]

Short and sweet. To the point. I liked the summaries at the end of the book and of each chapter.

[Seandots On · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is my first time reading Hollins, and this was an excellent short read. To summarize the book well, to learn how to speed read one must know how to re-read.

[Stephanie Saavedra · Rating 5 out of 5]

buenos tips

libro de lectura relajada, da buenos tips, es muy fácil de leer y entender, buen inicio pars tener nociones de lectura rápida y comenzar a prácticar

[Byron · Rating 5 out of 5]

Practico y didáctico

Excelente libro para fortalecernos, amigable de fácil lectura y entendimiento 100% recomendable para aquellos que desean mejorar sus hábitos de lectura

[Robert Beard · Rating 5 out of 5]

Although I Use Speed Reading This Book Was Very Useful to Me

I guess I first picked up speed reading techniques, consciously, or unconsciously in the 7th grade and honed these skills in high school. By the time I got to college and grad school these skills were very important to me. However, I have always wanted to read as fast as possible while retaining what I had read. Peter Hollis’s work was a good refresher course, but more than that, his discussion of the value of pre-reading, and techniques to classify information, and to retain it through various techniques, such as mind maps and knowledge trees was extremely worthwhile. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to improve their reading speed and comprehension of what they have just read.