Fast Reading Tips Novels & Stories

What a spiteful little man, she thought. Caitlin wasted no time. She cracked open the first book, an old tome from the nineteenth century, thick, leather-bound. As she turned its frail and brittle pages, she went into speed-reading mode, reading the pages faster than she ever had in her life, looking for keywords, places, locations, ideas. Anything that would lead to another book, another idea, another lead, another clue. Anything with substance.

It’s very fast. Hans smiled and just shrugged. “I’m kinda used to it. I read fast, you know… In medical school, we are trained to do so. So, I got the hobby of reading books at a fast pace.” When Hans was still in medical school, most of the time when would read 6-10 medical books in a day. It’s because there are times that their professors would suddenly throw a surprise examination without even telling them the coverage of it. So, for him not to get caught off guard, he made it a hobby to read as many books as he can at a fast rate.

I ask her, still watching her eyes scanning fast over the pages before they finally blink up at me. “Yeah, I am,” she plasters a smile on her face and turns to another page of the book, “I’m just trying to make sense of some of these techniques. The illustrations are a little… weird.” Lies. “Reading them too fast won't help you,” I cork a serious brow at her, “To make sense of them, you have to actually pause and study them closely. Do you want me to help?” She waves a dismissive hand. “I think I’ll try to get a hang of them on my own first, then ask questions later.”