By far the most "honest" book on the subject

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	• Breakthrough Rapid Reading Peter Kump Prentice Hall Press, 1998 - 276 pages average customer review:based on 46 reviews view larger image
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The Undisputed Best

This is a home study course, but if you do it every day for as little as fifteen minutes a day, you can read over 1,000 words per minute in three to six months. You need to be able to read at a high school level reasonably well, but even if you don't (!) it will take a little longer.

Peter Kump is the successor of Evelyn Wood, the founder of Speedreading. I have tried dozens of speed-reading courses, and they all have serious flaws. I tried another book which claimed to be "the best speed-reading course ever developed", but inside the author admitted that most people will only be able to read up to 800 words per minute at max. (I read at 600 wpm, so that wasn't much of a jump for me.)

Kump's book delivers in every way. It needs daily practice, but a maximum of fifteen minutes a day will get you soaring. Kump says it will not happen as fast as you want, but sooner than you expect. The book makes no fantastic claims, because it says slow progress in the beginning will lead to rapid speeds for EVERYONE. And it works, I, a college kid in New York, have read over 1,000 words per minute with Kump's at-home book.

He doesn't have gimmicks and more garbage to sell at the end. He doesn't make false promises. This is the only speed reading book to get and you will ever need. The others fall short. Kump has taught thousands and thousands, and he relates his classroom experience wonderfully. He reassures you with anecdotes of students who started out slow, but then soared at 2,000 words per minute. He humors you with stories of high school children finishing a chapter in two minutes when their teachers give the class twenty minutes of in-class reading time. When the student successfully answers all question, the teacher remarks that the student "must have read it before class". (He's only funny in a professorial way, not at all a comedian. He seems like he would be a serious, but helpful, teacher in class.)

It's also the cheapest out there. If you want to buy more than one book on speed-reading, I suggest you buy this one alone. I would be shocked if you felt you needed another one after going through this one. Just trying to save you money here. You can read my other reviews to test my biases. I know I sound like I'm like Peter Kump's son hawking daddy's book, but I like to give honest, passionate reviews. Live long and prosper.

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A Great Book-A Must Read!

I recommend this book to anyone who wishes to increase their reading speed. By the sixth lesson I had gone from 250 to 700 words per minute and my comprehension was greatly improved. My only wish is that I had discovered this book years ago.

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Great Book

I've only read about 1/10 if this book and I've already improved my reading speed from from 198 wpm to 300 wpm. Check this out. It will give you an all new understandig of reading..

By far the most "honest" book on the subject

The author exerted more effort into this book than any other one I saw on the subject. He deals with many aspects of human interactions when it comes to reading and not just eye positioning. Most books use the same repetetive gimmick, which is to concentrate on the center of the page as you read vertically. I would make an educated guess that no author covers more "practical" advice than kump did -to date. This is the REAL DEAL, I wish I had it in college.

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