Speed reading claims discredited by new report

Readers ‘should be wary of promises to increase speed with no cost to comprehension’, say researchersDespite the wishes of all those of us with a teetering to-be-read pile, companies and apps that promise to rapidly increase reading speeds are on a hiding to nothing, according to new research.A review paper, which has just been published in the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest, analyses the latest research into the reading process, and what it means for speed-read