Triple Your Reading Speed

As self help books go, this title seems dated to me. There are lots (and lots) of comprehension texts with multiple choice questions to test your initial speed, and subsequent improvement, but not much in the way of substance on technique.

After a couple of comprehension test (33 pages) there is a chunk of the book explaining about why people read slowly (48 pages), followed by a series of "drills" (44 pages). These two sections form the bulk of the interest and learning in the book. What remains beyond this are loads (260 pages) of confirmatory exercises to test your newly found reading speed.

I think the book would benefit from beefing up the interesting 96 pages in the middle with diagrams, explanation and experimental evidence to be a bigger portion of the reading. There are also trivial explanations of how to calculate words per minute, how to perform well in tests and how to make a "time-tape" all of which seem to be from 1970-something before the age of calculators (if required), common exam techniques (eg. multiple choice) and the invention of the stop-watch?!

As for improving my reading speed, without someone forcing me to keep repeating the "drills" I don't think I would be close to doubling let alone tripling it.