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Forty years ago, Donald Homa, a professor of psychology at Arizona State University specializing in memory and the visual perception of linguistic stimuli, was contacted by officials at the American ...

Covers of new editions of books by Franz Kafka. (Photo: MICHAL CIZEK/AFP/Getty Images) “The prospect of speed reading—reading at an increased speed without any loss of comprehension—has undeniable ...

There’s good reason to wish you could read faster. Not only do excellent book recommendations come out faster than you can note down the titles, more or less actually make it from cover to cover, but ...

Readers ‘should be wary of promises to increase speed with no cost to comprehension’, say researchers Despite the wishes of all those of us with a teetering to-be-read pile, companies and apps that ...

Speed reading is about to have another popularity spike — one likely fueled by the recent announced of Spritz on the Galaxy S5. The speed reading feature will come included with some apps, and uses a ...

People read more than ever on mobile devices and usually in 10-minute bursts, giving rise to a new wave of apps that promise to make reading on a small screen easier. Angela Chen reports on the News ...

When the Samsung Galaxy S5 was announced, details emerged about Spritz — a speed-reading feature that comes built-in to some apps on the phone. Spritz uses rapid serial visual presentation, or RSVP, ...

According to the badge icon on my phone, I have 667 unread articles in my Instapaper account. I also have 12 un-downloaded novels waiting for me on Amazon's servers, 142 unopened emails, and suffer ...

Ashley Sanders is a doctoral candidate in the department of history at Michigan State University. You can follow her on Twitter at @throughthe_veil or on her blog, Colonialism Through the Veil. I have ...