50+ Free Resources for Effective Reading

(I plan to continuously update this page as I discover new resources. That’s why I use 50+ instead of a fix number for the title of this post.)
Articles
Overview

• Reading
• Speed Reading

Definitions

• Meta guiding
• Skimming
• Subvocalization
• Vision span
• SQ3R
• Fixation
• Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP)

Speed reading

• Speed-Reading Techniques
• Speed Reading – How to Increase your Reading Speed
• How to Learn Speed Reading – WikiHow
• Double Your Reading Rate
• Speed Reading Basics
• Speed Reading – Substantially Raising Your Reading Speed (PDF)
• Double Your Reading Speed in One Hour

Marking

• Twelve Ways To Mark Up A Book
• How to Mark a Book

Motivation

• Read a Book a Week
• Ways to distinguish yourself – #12 Be a reader

Miscellaneous

• PhotoReading
• How to Read a Scientific Research Paper
• How to Read a Textbook
• How to Improve Reading Comprehension
• How to read a non-fiction book?
• Top 10 tips for effective blog reading
• A Quick and Dirty Reading Strategy When Time is Short

Collections of articles

• Articles about speed reading (links to 57 articles)
• Links to a Better Education – Reading (links to 51 articles)
• Links to a Better Education – Reading (SQ3R) (links to 17 articles)
• Links to a Better Education – Reading Textbooks (links to 20 articles)
• Links to a Better Education – Underlining (links to 16 articles)
• Study Guides and Strategies (links to 9 articles in the “Reading skills” section)

Courses

• 7 Day Free Speed Reading Course
• Effective Reading Course

Books

• On the Art of Reading (or download from Bartleby)
• The Guide to Reading – the Pocket University Volume XXIII

Videos

• ZapReader tutorial
• Speed Reading Interview Part 1, Part 2
• Learn to Speed Read
• Speed Reading Practice #1, #2 
• Marshall Speed Read
• bWare Speed Reading Exercises: Eye Muscle Exercise 101
• bWare Speed Reading Exercises: Word Recognition Exercise 101
• bWare Speed Reading Level 1, Level 2, Level 3

Tests

• Speed reading test
• Speed reading test online

Applications
Speed reader

• Spreeder (web-based)
• ZAP reader (web-based)
• RSVP Reader (Firefox extension)
• Paragrasp (Firefox extension)
• Dictator (Windows or Linux)
• Speed Reader (Windows)
• Reading Acceleration Machine (Windows)
• Qwik Reader (Windows)

Summarizer

• Automatic Text Summarizer (web-based)
• Open Text Summarizer (Windows or Linux)

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