"Productivity Techniques: How do you speed up the consumption of, say, text if you want to read faster? How do you do that without succumbing to some pseudoscience nonsense about speed reading?"

"Reading Efficiency: And since we can only manage what we can measure, step number one is figuring out roughly how many words per page are on this particular, say, spread."

"Improving Reading Speed: That is, your words per minute, rate your wpm, and what we do should help double or triple that without too much trouble."

"Understanding Peripheral Vision in Reading: 'When we read, most of us, when we are taught to read, we read word by word. So we go from the furthermost left word to the furthermost right word, and so on. Seems logical. The problem with that is, is you're not using any of this space or the margins. And the way that you then remedy that is by drawing lines on some pages.'"

"Improving Reading Speed: And by doing this alone, just that, you can train yourself to get to the point where effectively, you are very much focusing on the middle third of the page, and you're just dotting down the page left to right. And that, in and of itself, could easily double your reading speed without sacrificing comprehension."

"Eye Movement and Perception: 'The eye doesn't track in a clean, smooth line when you are, say, glancing from left to right...the eye jumps from fixation point to fixation point. And you can see this with retina scanning and eye tracking, which I've seen a fair amount of just in psychological studies.'"

"The Science of Reading: 'When you're looking at a given page, your eye isn't moving smoothly across each line. It's fixation, fixation, fixation. So the less that we can regress, meaning bounce back or bounce up, you want to stay on that reliable forward path. And the fewer fixation points we have, it's just a math problem. The less time we're going to spend reading each page.'"

"Improving Reading Techniques: 'What we're going to do now is use a pacer so you could use your finger. And now you are actually going to track with your finger trace underneath the line, like so. And try to think of two fixation points per line for your eye. But this will keep you from bouncing up to previously read material.'"

"Improving Reading Speed: The next thing you're going to do is say for five minutes is to read slightly faster than your comprehension allows. So you want to get to the point where you're losing maybe 10%. And the effect that we're looking for is resetting your comfort set point in reading at full comprehension."

"Boosting Reading Speed: So for five minutes, just practice reading with slight comprehension loss, a little bit faster than is comfortable. And then what I want you to do is retest your word per minute rate. And in doing that, I would wager that the vast majority of you, probably close to 100%, if you followed all these instructions, will have at least improved your reading speed by 50%."