50 Best Speed Reading Books of All Time

We've researched and ranked the best speed reading books in the world, based on recommendations from world experts, sales data, and millions of reader ratings. Learn more

Featuring recommendations from Dan Ariely, Charles T. Munger, Sergey Brin, and 95 other experts.
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When Stephen Covey first released The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, the book became an instant rage because people suddenly got up and took notice that their lives were headed off in the wrong direction; and more than that, they realized that there were so many simple things they could do in order to navigate their life correctly. This book was wonderful education for people, education in how to live life effectively and get closer to the ideal of being a ‘success’ in life.

But not everyone understands Stephen Covey’s model fully well, or maybe there are some people who...
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Dustin Moskovitz[I] was surprised at how familiar the topics felt. (Source)

Dave Ramsey[Dave Ramsey recommended this book on his website.] (Source)

Kishore BiyaniImmensely helpful and influential during my early years, it explained some of the basic mindsets required to succeed in any profession. (Source)

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How to Read a Book

The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

With more than half a million paperback copies in print and now in this stunning hardcover keepsake edition, How to Read a Book is the classic and definitive guide to reading comprehension and retention for students of literature, scholars across disciplines, and anyone who just loves to read.

Originally written in 1940 and first published by Simon & Schuster in 1972, How to Read a Book introduces and elucidates the various levels of reading and how to achieve them in order to gain the most understanding and insight from any book. From elementary reading, through systematic...
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Sergey Brinhad “How to Read a Book” by Mortimer J. Adler as one of his most recommended books. (Source)

Ben ChestnutI also love How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler. I’m teaching its tips to my children while they’re young, so they can consume books much faster and have more fun reading. (Source)

Kevin Systrom[The author's] thesis is that the most important part of reading a book is to actually read the table of contents and familiarize yourself with the major structure of the book. (Source)

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Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology and displaying all of the brilliance that made The Tipping Point a classic, Blink changes the way you'll understand every decision you make. Never again will you think about thinking the same way.

Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant - in the blink of an eye - that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some...
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Mike ShinodaI know most of the guys in the band read [this book]. (Source)

Marillyn HewsonCEO Marilyn Hewson recommends this book because it helped her to trust her instincts in business. (Source)

Cat Williams-TreloarThe books that I've talked the most about with friends and colleagues over the years are the Malcolm Gladwell series of novels. Glorious stories that mix science, behaviours and insight. You can't go wrong with the "The Tipping Point", "Outliers", "Blink" or "David & Goliath". (Source)

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With hit books that support strategic reading through conferring, small groups, and assessment, Jen Serravallo gets emails almost daily asking, "Isn't there a book of the strategies themselves?" Now there is.

"Strategies make the often invisible work of reading actionable and visible," Jen writes. In The Reading Strategies Book, she collects 300 strategies to share with readers in support of thirteen goals-everything from fluency to literary analysis. Each strategy is cross-linked to skills, genres, and Fountas & Pinnell reading levels to give you just-right teaching,...
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'The Speed Reading Book' is an absolute requirement for anyone with a desire to read and learn more efficiently.' Sean Adam, World Speed Reading Record Holder.

Have you ever wanted to increase dramatically your reading speed, improve your comprehension and enhance your study and learning skills?

The Speed Reading Book, part of Tony Buzan's revolutionary 'Mind Set' series (which includes the million-copy bestseller The Mind Map" Book), is a revolutionary operations manual for those who wish to achieve all of these goals and much more!
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10 Days to Faster Reading

Jump-Start Your Reading Skills! Speed reading used to require months of training. Now you can rev up your reading in just a few minutes a day. With quizzes to determine your present reading level and exercises to introduce new skills quickly, 10 Days to Faster Reading will improve your reading comprehension and speed as it shows you how to:

Break the Bad Habits That Slow You Down
Develop Your Powers of Concentration
Cut Your Reading Time in Half
Use Proven, Specially Designed Reading Techniques
Boost the Power of Your Peripheral Vision
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He says that's his best offer. Is it?

She says she agrees. Does she?

The interview went great—or did it?

He said he'd never do it again. But he did.

Read this book and send your nonverbal intelligence soaring. Joe Navarro, a former FBI counterintelligence officer and a recognized expert on nonverbal behavior, explains how to "speed-read" people: decode sentiments and behaviors, avoid hidden pitfalls, and look for deceptive behaviors. You'll also learn how your body language can influence what your boss, family, friends, and...
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Recommended by Naval Ravikant, and 1 others.

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Join Catboy, Gekko, and Owlette as they go into the night to save the day in this collectible Ready-to-Read boxed set, complete with a carry-along handle and a velcro closure!

Go into the night to save the day—and then read all about it with Catboy, Gekko, and Owlette with this PJ Masks Level 1 Ready-to-Read boxed set!

Perfect for superheroes on the go, this collection includes:
Hero School
Owlette and the Giving Owl

PJ Masks Race to the Moon!
PJ Masks Save the Library
Super Cat Speed
Time...
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Dominic Mackenzie isn’t too proud to take advantage of the local gloryhole. As far as he’s concerned, there’s nothing better than a warm, wet mouth without any strings attached. It’s only by accident that he discovers the shocking identity of the man on his knees. Once the secret’s out, then all bets are off.

Warning: This title contains m/m sex and twincest.
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Breakthrough Rapid Reading

The former National Director of Education for Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics. presents his do-it-yourself program for increasing reading speed and boosting comprehension. This program distills fundamental principles and skills chat can be learned at home with the help of the drills and exercises provided. And because it lets readers choose their own materials and set their own pace, it's the ideal method for busy people juggling a full schedule.

Peter Kump, a rapid reading expert, has been Director of Peter Kump Reading Consultants for over twenty years. He has taught rapid...
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Speed Reading For Dummies

Learn to:


Increase your reading speed and comprehension Use speed techniques for any type of reading material Improve your silent reading skills Recall more of what you read The fun and easy way(R) to become a more efficient, effective reader!

Want to read faster -- and recall more of what you read? This practical, hands-on guide gives you the techniques you need to increase your reading speed and retention, whether you're reading books, e-mails, magazines, or even technical journals! You'll find reading aids and plenty of exercises to...
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DON'T JUST SPEED READ. SPEED COMPREHEND!UNIQUE PHRASE-HIGHLIGHTING TECHNIQUE - READ FASTER IMMEDIATELYNot the old speed reading tricks about "saccades", "eye-span widening", or "finger waving patterns." Discover how to comprehend faster, so instead of simply seeing words faster, you'll READ FASTER!

Forget about using your finger as a pacer, or trying to suppress sub-vocalization.
Boost focus and concentration by engaging the power of your right brain visualizing skills.


Reading happens in your brain, not your eyes. That's why reading speed only...
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Recommended by Seth Godin, Park Howell, and 2 others.

Park HowellThis is one of the books I recommend to people looking for a career in advertising. (Source)

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Jumpstart your child’s reading success with comics! Kids will love these laugh-out-loud books with very easy text in speech balloons. They’ll also adore the zany cast of characters: monsters, bears, talking crayons, pirates, dinosaurs, grumpy trolls, and more! This fun set, correlated with guided reading levels C & D, is packed with 20 just-right titles plus a parent guide, mini-workbook, and motivating stickers. A giggle-fueled way to boost essential literacy!
Includes
• 20 full-color, 8-page books
• 4-page parent guide
• 24-page mini-workbook
• Stickers
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This resource provides second grade teachers and parents of second grade students with 180 daily practice activities to build and gauge students' reading comprehension and word study skills. Great for after school and intervention programs, students gain regular practice through these quick diagnostic-based activities. Both fiction and nonfiction passages are provided as well as data-driven assessment tips and a Digital Resource CD with assessment analysis and electronic versions of the daily practice activities. This resource is correlated to the Common Core State Standards and is aligned to... more

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Triple Your Reading Speed

This fourth edition of Triple Your Reading Speed does just that -- with self-quizzes and tests that make it fun and simple to acquire the skills that will give you an edge in school and on the job. The renowned Acceleread Method helps you to break old habits that may be slowing you down, and develop strategies for increased comprehension in less time, with eye exercises to control and expand vision drills for practicing pacing and block reading strategies for mastering the "two-stop" reading method...and more!

Boost your reading power today with Triple Your Reading...
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A system that works; a book that keeps selling. Since 1959, the Evelyn Wood Program of Dynamic Learning has been successfully employed by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, helping them break free of the self-imposed shackles that hinder learning. By teaching us to tap the natural power of the mind, the Evelyn Wood method helps us to dramatically increase reading speed, retain more of what we hear and read, improve comprehension and develop our powers of concentration. In just minutes, you'll notice a real difference in your reading speed, and in succeeding chapters of this seven-day... more

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Don't have time to read the top Speed Reading books of all time? Read Shortform summaries.

Shortform summaries help you learn 10x faster by:

  • Being comprehensive: you learn the most important points in the book
  • Cutting out the fluff: you focus your time on what's important to know
  • Interactive exercises: apply the book's ideas to your own life with our educators' guidance.
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"An important and alarming new book." --New York Times
The way we teach reading is not working, and it cannot continue. We have largely abandoned phones-based reading instruction, despite research that supports its importance for word recognition. Rather than treating Black English as a valid dialect and recognizing that speaking one dialect can impact the ability to learn to read in another, teachers simply dismiss it as "incorrect English." And while we press children to develop large vocabularies because we think being a good reader means knowing more words, studies have...
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Speed Reading

The simple methods in this guide can help double or triple anyone's reading speed while increasing reading comprehension and enjoyment. Designed to offer maximum results with a minimum of effort, Speed Reading is filled with techniques, practical tips, exercises, and charts that facilitate results with just minutes of practice a day. less

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Speed Lights! (Blaze and the Monster Machines) (Step into Reading)

Nickelodeon’s Blaze and the Monster Machines are ready to race! Boys and girls ages 4 to 6 will love this action-packed Step 2 Step into Reading leveled reader. It features a shiny cover and over 30 shiny stickers! Step 2 Readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories. For children who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help. less

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Dramatically Improve Your Reading Speed and Comprehension!
Do you hate to study? Is it slow and boring? Would you like to read faster and get more out of your study sessions?


Speed Reading: The Comprehensive Guide To Speed Reading – Increase Your Reading Speed By 300% In Less Than 24 Hours teaches you the basics of speed reading so you can get started increasing your learning speed – right away! This book will help you assess your current reading speed and track your progress as your skills improve. You’ll learn essential speed reading techniques,...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Speed Reading

On your marks, get set, read!

Most adults today are working with antiquated skills and ingrained beliefs about their reading abilities, or lack thereof. But with the tips and examples offered in The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Speed Reading, getting through a load of must-do reading doesn’t have to be an arduous or overwhelming chore. The strategies are surprisingly simple once revealed. With practice, readers will not only speed through and understand books, articles, and professional journals but will also build their personal reading confidence and competence.

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Speed Reading for Professionals

Barron's Business Success books offer useful advice to career-minded men and women who are looking to get ahead in the business and corporate world. Titles touch on all levels of management, marketing, organization, and related business operations. Reading and comprehending a large number of documents and reports—many of them specialized and technical—is a vital task that is intrinsic to fulfilling management and executive responsibilities. The authors of this practical book recommend techniques and exercises designed to increase reading speed dramatically and to retain important... more

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Axel the Truck

Speed Track

Axel is a little red truck with big wheels and big dreams. In this easy-to-read story that is just right for beginning readers, Axel and his dog, Rex, go to the racetrack at the fairgrounds and race against trucks and cars that are bigger, better, and faster than he is. Does Axel win? You bet he does! Short declarative sentences, tons of action and fun, age-appropriate vocabulary, sound effects and onomatopoeia, and bold, detailed illustrations, make Axel the Truck: Speed Track a great choice for building confidence in emerging readers. This is a companion to Axel the Truck:... more

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Super Cat Speed!

Catboy tries to save the school concert in this Level 1 Ready-to-Read based on PJ Masks, the hit preschool series airing on Disney Junior!

The school concert is tomorrow and all of the musical instruments have gone missing. Where can they be? To save the day, Catboy will have to use some courage—and a whole lot of Super Cat Speed!

This paperback edition comes with two sheets of stickers!

PJ Masks © Frog Box / Entertainment One UK Limited / Walt Disney EMEA Productions Limited 2014
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Don't have time to read the top Speed Reading books of all time? Read Shortform summaries.

Shortform summaries help you learn 10x faster by:

  • Being comprehensive: you learn the most important points in the book
  • Cutting out the fluff: you focus your time on what's important to know
  • Interactive exercises: apply the book's ideas to your own life with our educators' guidance.
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Discover what has been hidden from you...

Introducing the boxed set containing the first five books in The Underground Knowledge Series by James Morcan & Lance Morcan. THE UNDERGROUND KNOWLEDGE SERIES I-V comprises the following books:

GENIUS INTELLIGENCE
ANTIGRAVITY PROPULSION
MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE ENIGMA
INTERNATIONAL BANKSTER$

Garnering evidence from court cases, declassified government files and media reports, The Underground Knowledge Series discloses little-known facts on a wide range of topics....
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Nordic Reading

Lesen im Beruf ist zu einem Zeitfresser und Stressfaktor geworden. Weit über die Hälfte der Menschen sitzt vorwiegend am Computer und liest Mails, Berichte und andere Texte, ist aber oft gar nicht mehr in der Lage, alle Informationen zu verarbeiten. In Schweden ist das anders: Schwedische Kinder gehören zu den besten Lesern weltweit. Das liegt in erster Linie am Fernsehen mit Untertiteln, das darauf trainiert, statt einzelner Buchstaben ganze Wortgruppen zu erfassen. Auf dieser Technik beruht auch die BrainRead®-Methode, die es ermöglicht, das Lesetempo in kürzester...
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Schneller lesen - besser verstehen

Ihre Lizenz zum Lesen Wir lesen täglich mehrere Stunden: im Büro und privat, zur Information und zur Entspannung. 200 Wörter pro Minute bewältigt der Durchschnittsleser - viel zu wenig, um eigene Wünsche und fremde Anforderungen zu erfüllen. Dabei ist ein Mehrfaches davon möglich, ja, ein schnelleres Lesetempo ist sogar die Voraussetzung für besseres Textverständnis und höhere Konzentration. Wolfgang Schmitz erklärt anhand anschaulicher Beispiele und praktischer Übungen, wie besseres Lesen funktioniert, wie Sie die Hauptlesefehler vermeiden können und wie das Zusammenspiel von guten Techniken... more

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Does your job require a ton of reading, and you're struggling to go through everything in time?

Are you a student who regularly has to read a mountain of books for your exams?

When was the last time your hectic schedule allowed you to curl under a blanket, and spend hours reading?

If these scenarios sound familiar, you'd be happy to hear that there's a method you can use to read and learn faster, increase productivity in the workplace, and impress everyone with your knowledge!

Speed reading is a skill that has gained an incredible amount of...
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4 Books in 1 Boxset
Included in this book collection are:
How to Analyze People: The Complete Psychologist's Guide to Speed Reading People - Analyze and Influence Anyone through Human Behavior Psychology, Analysis of Body Language and Personality Types

Emotional Intelligence: The Complete Psychologist's Guide to Mastering Social Skills, Improve Your Relationships, Boost Your EQ and Self Mastery
Manipulation: The Complete Psychologist's Guide to Highly Effective Manipulation and Deception Techniques - Influence People with NLP, Mind Control and...
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Genius Intelligence (The Underground Knowledge Series, #1)

The brain’s potential IS the human potential!

What if there are faster and easier ways to learn and study than the modi operandi currently being taught in mainstream education systems?

GENIUS INTELLIGENCE: Secret Techniques and Technologies to Increase IQ is the ultimate treatise on accelerated learning methods. Written by novelists, filmmakers and independent researchers James Morcan & Lance Morcan with a foreword by leading scientist Dr. Takaaki Musha, this book shatters the myth that geniuses are born not developed. It reveals how most instances of...
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Shortform summaries help you learn 10x faster by:

  • Being comprehensive: you learn the most important points in the book
  • Cutting out the fluff: you focus your time on what's important to know
  • Interactive exercises: apply the book's ideas to your own life with our educators' guidance.
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Super Reading Secrets

Devised by the man recorded in Guinness as the world's fastest reader--80 pages per minutes--this is the only program that combines the most up-to-date learning techniques and psychological discoveries with proven speed-reading methods and ancient tools like meditation to significantly improve both reading speed and comprehension. less

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Ground breaking speed reading guide with scientifically proven benefits.... Are you tired of reading at a snail's pace? Are you fed up with not being able to remember the information that you read? Would you like to be able to improve your ability to concentrate? If you have answered yes to any of these questions, you have come to the right place!

Count yourself lucky; you have just joined an elite club of speed reading people who hold the keys to reading the right way. I am certain that you know how to read or you wouldn't be reading this now! However, do you know...
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ماهي أهداف القراءة، وماهي أهم المجالات التي يجب أن تقرأ فيها؟

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ما هي أشهر المكتبات وماهو تصنيف المكتبات الرقمية والإلكترونيه؟
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"Get this book, learn the system, do cool readings." - David Numen "Julian's work is the best of the bunch in these genres. I have scoured book stores. I only learn from his books and ideas." - John Cesta My latest ebook which teaches the fundamentals of cartomancy is now ready for release. It's similar to my other books in that it's aimed at complete beginners as well as people who've started learning this particular reading discipline but then given up for one reason or another. Like my other books I use a no nonsense approach with lots of memory tips, insights,... more

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"Original theories and techniques for reading improvement... a totally exclusive method of presenting practice exercises" Richard Sutz, Author of Speed Reading for Dummies

"It's amazing that so much could have been written since Evelyn Wood and no one came up with the idea of 'speed comprehension.'" Dr. James Young, Ph.D., Professor of English

Get 100 ONE-MINUTE SPEED READING DRILLS, and start reading faster today.
Original Phrase-Reading Technique:
Struggling to keep your mind from wandering? Make reading more...
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Dramatically Improve Your Reading Speed and Comprehension! Do you hate to study? Is it slow and boring? Would you like to read faster and get more out of your study sessions?

Speed Reading: The Comprehensive Guide to Speed Reading - Increase Your Reading Speed By 300% Using: Speed Reading Techniques, Reading Comprehension Techniques, and Accelerated Learning Techniques teaches you the basics of speed reading so you can get started increasing your learning speed - right away! This book will help you assess your current reading speed and track your progress as...
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Imagine that you have just been given the assignment of reading a book with hundreds of pages. You have only two days to complete this task and produce a written report about the reading. Would you be able to accomplish this in a timely and effective manner? The truth is, not many people are able to leverage such an accomplishment. In fact, it is assumed that only expert readers can do this, leaving the average reader struggling to get through even a few pages of a work at a time. To compensate for this, researchers have long debated that speed reading, or the ability to read rapidly by... more

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"I got Julian's book and it is wonderful! It is a great system for doing a reading and extremely practical. I applaud Julian and highly recommend this!" - Richard Osterlind

The James Bond Cold Reading is a whole new take on the twelve lines of the 'Classic Reading' made so popular from the 50's to the present day. Julian 'Bev' Moore shows you how this much discussed but seldom used powerful cold reading technique can be applied effectively and memorised in no time at all using characters such as James Bond that you already know and love.

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Learning is normally a function of logic and left-brain reasoning, but in Quantum Speed-Reading a Japanese teacher describes the discovery of a remarkable new technique that bypasses the left brain and taps directly into the power of the right brain. Originally published in Japan, Quantum Speed-Reading reveals a simple way for anyone to unlock their intuitive nature, a proposal that could potentially transform education, help improve memory, boost concentration, and much more. Quantum Speed-Reading includes a program for toddlers as well as exercises for both children and adults. less

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Don't have time to read the top Speed Reading books of all time? Read Shortform summaries.

Shortform summaries help you learn 10x faster by:

  • Being comprehensive: you learn the most important points in the book
  • Cutting out the fluff: you focus your time on what's important to know
  • Interactive exercises: apply the book's ideas to your own life with our educators' guidance.