The thing is, without a very high rate of retention in what you read (~80% or higher)
You're almost right.
It doesn't make any sense to read something if you don't remember a thing.
But confusing memory techniques with the reading speed makes no point - not even a shallow general one.
Even with "slow" reading you will not remember everything.
I highly doubt it can be quoted as >80% (100% means to remember
everything, every single letter on every page. I doubt either its learnabilty and its usefulness.)
I measured my reading speed - you'll find tests on the internet to get your words per minute (wpm) - and simply decided to increase it,
and did not bought the very first book I accidently stumbled over.
So
it's amazing how you know which books I read by the short post I made,
and know they are crap.
Fantastic.
Can you teach me that ability?
...pointing to a single commercial course being promoted on websites full of cooky- & blinky-blinky-rubbish (with games and
video lessons... - I'm talking
reading books!),
...which may not be bad at all.
But so are my books. (At least I think - you know better.)
At least I did not spent 200 $ for them.
While youself
through books.
Those books I read
not only says you also need to memorize things, too, (what, by the way, is a pioneering idea - never thought of that)
but also giving memorizing techniques,
and - way more important -
learn
several techniques for different kinds of reading, depending on what one reads, what one get out of it,...and how to distinguish.
For example I don't remember my grocery's shopping lists from months ago.
I don't need to. I don't want to.
That's what pen & paper is for.
...I'm out of here.
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It's a very achievable percentage. No.. i'm not talking about the percentage of words in the book that you memorize. Trying to memorize every letter on every page is insane, pointless, and just not possible. Is that what you do when you "speed read" ? It doesn't matter what you doubt. What I said is accurate.
