Speed reading and Kindle

 Just watched some interesting considerations about Kindle (the recent physical devices, although most apply to the app, too) in the SuperLearner MasterClass, as it relates to speed reading:

- you can change margins. I always max it out, which is what is recommended for speed reading (max absorption per saccade).

- you can change font size with a pincer movement (that one was new to me). It is good to remember that speed reading can be more tiring for your eyes, so increasing the font size may be a good idea.

- there is a button on the bottom of the screen for a preview mode (you have probably seen it, and they made sure to present it when it was added). But that is a great help for pre-reading (going ahead very quickly stablishing what you will read, for interest and pre-markers), as well as reviewing markers at the end of the chapter, because you will quickly go back to your page when you close the preview.

- X-Ray is also useful for pre-reading - you get lists of people, notable clips, images and terms to build curiosity in your pre-reading.

- You can use kindle.amazon.com to get your highlights for a book, and easily clip to Evernote. I'm adding something I discovered yesterday - if I buy a book elsewhere and send it to my Kindle, it will highlight but won't sync it. So the easiest way to get those highlights is connecting the Kindle to the PC and copy the relevant sections of the highlights.txt file.

Don't want to get the course? The Only Skill that Matters, also by Jonathan Levi, covers a lot of this (just in a lot less detail). And if you really like it, you can always get some version of the course later.

PS: This is an affiliate link for Amazon. There is very little point to adding it with my blog traffic, but since I had to get a link, it is pretty much the same amount of work :shrug: .

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