Kindle, an Amazon e-book reader, has gained immense popularity in recent times owing to its features that allow readers to download e-books and read with relative ease anytime, anywhere. Recent speculations suggest that a Kindle Car application might be launched by Amazon that will allow readers to listen to book narration while driving.Continue Reading…

The answer is “yes” … if you know how to speed read, that is. Digital gadgets such as e-readers and tablets are making reading on monitors an increasingly tempting habit. And as with any new habit, speed reading on tablets or e-readers requires some skills and knowledge you need to possess in order to successfully speed read the new fantasy book you just downloaded.Continue Reading…

Too much to read, too little time. This is a common complaint these days. We have an abundance of information, yet limited time to take it all in. The joke is on us apparently.Continue Reading…

People who claim to have found the secret to a stress-free life, please contact me ASAP. I would love to know your secret— as long as drugs are off the table!Continue Reading…

If you could spend an entire day being utterly productive that would be a huge accomplishment. But for most people who go to school or to the office day in and day out, just because they’ve put in their 8 hours doesn’t necessarily mean they’ve been productive. True, they may have crossed off a set of items on their to-do list, but being busy does not equate to being productive.Continue Reading…

If you were never interested in literature, you probably don’t know why Shakespeare’s “Othello” is considered a masterpiece. But even if you had zero interest in Shakespeare, you might have been motivated to study literature if you decided that you could benefit from this knowledge. When knowledge  can directly benefit us, that’s definitely something that sparks our interest. And if this knowledge (for example, knowing CSS coding) is useful and perhaps moneymaking, then we become the most dedicated, knowledge-thirsty self-motivated learners possible.Continue Reading…

Even if you avoid social media, commercials, and even reading the newspaper, it’s highly likely that by now you know that “Fifty Shades of Grey” refers to more than a set of paint samples for your house.Continue Reading…

Remember when your reading lists contained nothing but a school assignment, or a note to look for more books by an author you just loved reading? Well, forget all about that. This is the Internet era where reading online never seems to end – strangely, it seems like the more you read, the more links you find to still more articles. Sounds pessimistic? We’d rather call it fascinating.Continue Reading…

Learning how to speak and read a foreign language can both be very exciting and challenging. The good news, though, is that with a good set of resources and a little work, you’ll soon be on your way to fluency. What’s more, you can also apply speed reading techniques to your study even if the language is not native to you.Continue Reading…

If you’ve been working on improving your reading speed, you’ll know about the bad habits that you need to overcome, like subvocalization and sounding words out letter by letter. These are habits that you probably learned (like many people did) when you first started reading in school. You were taught to sound out words, and to read aloud, and if you never learned any other way to read then you’d probably continue to read at that same slow speed.Continue Reading…