The program by Evelyn Wood supposedly enabled a reader to devour "War and Peace" in 18 minutes. Courtesy of DC Public Library, Washingtoniana Division The last thing Evelyn Wood, the matriarch of ...

Forty years ago, Donald Homa, a professor of psychology at Arizona State University specializing in memory and the visual perception of linguistic stimuli, was contacted by officials at the American ...

Howard Berg claims to read 25,000 words a minute—the equivalent of an old-school airport paperback every four minutes. First, the good news: A skilled reader can actually tell you the plot of an ...

Faster isn't necessarily better (or even possible). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. There never seems to be enough time to read ...

When Marcia Biederman was a 19-year-old college student in the 1960s, she found herself fighting a not-uncommon battle. “I was, like many college students, overwhelmed by my reading load,” says ...