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Jul. 29th, 2004 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wispfoxOK, random reading speed test thingy that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ladytabitha posted a link to.
http://mindbluff.com/askread2.htm
43 seconds for the first... (reading at light fiction speed, although still reading every word. Gods, that was a boring story! Entirely too many details about the house!)
700 - 750 w/m for the second, reading at non-scientific textbook speed.
And I don't know how much the fact that I'm exhausted and not reading a paper book affects those. I read faster when I'm not tired, and I _think_ I read faster when reading on paper rather than a computer screen.
Neat!
ladytabitha posted a link to.http://mindbluff.com/askread2.htm
43 seconds for the first... (reading at light fiction speed, although still reading every word. Gods, that was a boring story! Entirely too many details about the house!)
700 - 750 w/m for the second, reading at non-scientific textbook speed.
And I don't know how much the fact that I'm exhausted and not reading a paper book affects those. I read faster when I'm not tired, and I _think_ I read faster when reading on paper rather than a computer screen.
Neat!
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Date: 2004-08-04 05:15 pm (UTC)We minimally used Robert J. Steinberg's Cognitive Psychology (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0155085352), but the class really relied on lecture and articles. I can dig up a list of articles about reading at some point, if you remind me. (The book was often too easy and simplistic, but the articles were rather long and jargon-filled though.)
I also recommend Steven Pinker's books on language, Howard Gardner's theories of multiple intelligences, Mel Levine's A Mind at a Time, Donald Norman's books on usability...
Some more books on usability (http://nmc1.kent.edu/iakm/html/Textbooks.htm)