title: Reading with the Right Brain: Read Faster by Reading Ideas Instead of Just Words
author:  David Butler 
description: "A unique method that allows you to more effectively assimilate what you read in a shorter amount of time." <i><b><br>-Amanda Johnson, M.A., Assistant Professor of English, Collin College, Plano, Texas</b></i><br /><br />"Includes not only original theories and techniques for reading improvement, but also a totally exclusive method of presenting practice exercises."<br><i><b>-Richard Sutz, CEO, The Literacy Company, EfficientReading.com,<br>Author of "Speed Reading for Dummies"</b></i><br /><br />"It is amazing to me that so much could have been written in so many years since Evelyn Wood about speed reading and no one came up with the idea of 'speed comprehension.'"<br><i><b>-Dr. James Young, Professor of English, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah </b></i><br /><br />"You've got to improve comprehension BEFORE you can read faster. Speed will follow as the natural result of better comprehension. The unique text format in this book will make it easy to practice reading whole ideas at a time. Get it and read all the books you want."<br><i><b>-Austin Butler, President and Founder, Teaching.com</b></i><br /><br />"Gets to the core of reading comprehension, with effective techniques and exercises to focus your attention on meaning versus words."<br><i><b>-Danielle Ellis, mother, editor, and 6th grade teacher</b></i>
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  **The Speed Reading Course**
  
  
  **By Peter Shepherd**
  
  
  **& Gregory Unsworth-Mitchell**
  
  
  **Email:[shepherd@trans4mind.com](mailto:shepherd@trans4mind.com)**
  
  
  **Web site: Tools for Transformation**
  
  
  **Copyright © 1997 Peter Shepherd**
  
  
  **The Speed Reading Course**
  
  
  
  
  
  **Introduction**
  
  
  We all learn to read at school, after a fashion. But for most of us, this is
  not an optimal use of our brain power. In this course you will learn to better
  use the left brain's focused attention combined with the right brain's
  peripheral attention, in close harmony. Good communication between the brain
  hemispheres is a pre-requisite for creative thinking and also a sense of well-
  being, where thoughts and feelings are integrated.
  
  
  As you probably expect, this course will also teach you to read much faster
  and at the same time, to remember more of what you have read. These are
  obviously great advantages.
  
  
  There is another major benefit. Most of us, as we read, 