“People can only read as fast as they can speak,” say the makers behind Velocity, a new $2.99 speed-reading app for iOS 7. “Through silencing your inner voice,” they say, you can effectively read much ...

We are not particularly fast readers. It’s a fact that we’re continually reminded of and occasionally demoralized by. There are wonderful articles published online every day (like this one, right?

Velocity is a new speed reader app for your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad that helps you read faster by presenting one word at a time using a technique called Rapid Serial Visual Presentation. Studies ...

ReadQuick offers a words-per-minute rate between 50 and 800. Velocity’s words-per-minute rate ranges from 100 to 1000. Both Velocity and ReadQuick take a similar approach to solving this problem by ...

Most Americans spend just under six hours per week reading books. At the average reading speed of around 300 words per minute, and with an average novel having 64,000 words, this comes out to about a ...