Reading is one of the most fundamental skills, and reading for pleasure can transform your health, memory, and productivity. In our age of information overload, however, it can feel like there isn’t ...

Windows: If you'd like to experiment with speed reading Speed Reader Enhanced is a tiny—23k download!—application for turning any block of pastable text into a speed reading exercise. Slap in the text ...

A browser extension called BeeLine Reader adds color gradients to paragraphs of text on the web. It’s not exactly pretty, but it seems effective at increasing readability. Like the Readability browser ...

In the despair-inducing young adult novel Flowers for Algernon, a man named Charlie with a low IQ receives an experimental treatment that makes him temporarily way smarter than he normally is. Then he ...

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Spritz, a Boston-based startup that’s been developing a speed-reading technology in stealth since 2011, is in the process of closing a $3.54 million seed funding round. Investors include Denis O’Brien ...