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Reading is no doubt a great way to escape and unwind; it increases your knowledge, focus and makes you view the world in a different way. Reading is beneficial for both your personal as well as professional life. But with the passage of time, the nature of books has evolved as the society and technology has changed. This has made people approach reading in a new way. The information is now being delivered in a variety of formats but when it comes to exactly absorbing books, there are specific ways for it.
The effective way to get through a reading material quickly is speed reading. This is a method that not only increases speed but is also recommended by psychologists and scientists to acquire more amount of knowledge in the shortest possible time. Following are the few ways for reading the right way:
Skimming through books:
This is a method similar to scanning as it involves running your eyes down the text to search certain words or phrases. Through this way, you quickly go through passages in order to find the main points. You do not comb each word of a sentence; instead, you go over the first and last paragraph, heading, as well as other cues to find the basic idea of the content.
Using meta guiding:
In this method, you use a pointer such as a pen or your index finger in order to guide your eyes along the text lines. With the help of a pointer, your eyes easily move horizontally and focus solely on the content you want to pay attention to.
The method of vision span:
For reading in a more appropriate way, human eyesight needs a span to read words in batches. This makes the readers focus their attention towards a central word and then use their peripheral vision to look at the adjacent words. The humans are believed to read about five words at one by relying on their peripherals.
The technique of RSVP:
This technique Rapid Serial Visual Representation (RSVP) is more relevant to the electronic reading system and displays words one at a time. The speed with which the words show up on the screen can be adjusted for easy understanding.
These kinds of reading techniques are used to hone in on certain topics and then going into the detail later on. Skimming gives you the basic idea regarding the content so that you get knowledge of the basic points. Some of the techniques save the time by eliminating the process of sounding the words in your head and to capture the few key points.
Via: Medium
