Several apps and technologies, however, can help you plow through the pages you’ve piled up (with the best intentions) during quarantine, in far less time. New tech updates these old-school methods, helping users fast-track through books, documents, articles and emails alike. As you increase your words-per-minute rate, the app auto-adjusts, speeding up to keep you challenged. Abby Marks-Beale, who authored “10 Days to Faster Reading” and runs Rev It Up Reading, a website that offers online courses, finds these apps helpful for practice but has reservations. The problem with the apps, she pointed out, is that it often remains unclear what strategy you’re employing.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 08, 2020 19:41 UTC