X-Message-Number: 15956 Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 15:33:35 -0500 From: James Swayze <> Subject: Re: CryoNet #15948 - #15953 References: <> CryoNet wrote: > Message #15949 > From: "John de Rivaz" <> > Subject: consciousness and reviewing book > Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:00:00 +0100 > > The sudden flurry of book recommendations that have appeared here suggest > that someone ought to start selling speed reading courses/software or > whatever. There does seem to be a growing problem of information overload. John, here is a speed reading software device. Studies show we can read much faster if the words are shown one after the other rapidly and in the same location each time. This program allows you to import text then it displays it in this fashion. It also helps one learn speed reading by allowing adjustment from one word to a line of words to be displayed successively as if scanning down a page of text. The key to speed reading is to learn how to not sound the words out internally at conversation speed. It's not easy to do and maintain comprehension but practice helps. http://www.stepware.com/acereader.html > However many books have a single message - the rest of the book explains why > the writer thinks this message is important. It can indeed be a useful > service for cryonet posters to summarise that message and if people want to > understand the underlying thought behind it **and they have the time** they > can read it up. In the case of many of the recommendations on cryonet those > who have read the books concerned are providing a very useful service in > distilling out those points which are of use and relevance to cryonicists This would be nice since some of us can't afford to buy every book suggested. Cliff notes for cryonet? James -- Some of our views are spacious some are merely space--RUSH Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=15956