Learn to speed read in 2 day course with the top Speed Reading experts in the UK. Speed Reading courses in London, UK. Speed Reading strategies to increase reading speed, comprehension and memory. In-house speed reading courses in the UK. http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts Double, triple, quadruple your reading speed Sun, 29 Aug 2010 10:28:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 Get your ebooks for FREE - top free book websites http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/posts/get-your-ebooks-for-free-top-free-book-websites http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/posts/get-your-ebooks-for-free-top-free-book-websites#comments Sun, 29 Aug 2010 10:24:14 +0000 admin http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/?p=1601 While ebooks are now outselling hardbacks 2:1 you can get lots of free ebooks online. Here’s a list of the top free book websites.

1) gutenberg.org - download over 33,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone, Android or other portable device -  and the competitor manybooks.net
2) booksinmyphone.com - read ebooks on your mobile phone
3) worldlibrary.net - shelves more than 750,000+ PDF eBooks in 100+ languages
4) freecomputerbooks.com - links to thousands of free IT books and manuals, free computer, mathematics, technical books and lecture notes
5) mangafox.com - read hundreds of foreign comic books (with English translations)

]]> http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/posts/get-your-ebooks-for-free-top-free-book-websites/feed Stress damages memory http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/posts/stress-damages-memory http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/posts/stress-damages-memory#comments Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:32:41 +0000 admin http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/?p=1591 Stress damages memory according to research by the University of California. Cortisol has been shown to damage and kill cells in the hippocampus (the area of the brain that is responsible for memory) and there is evidence that chronic stress causes premature brain aging. It has shown that even short-term stress can affect memory by activating ‘corticotropin-releasing hormones’, which disrupt the process by which the brain collects and stores memories. On the other hand, recent research by scientists in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science shows that acute stress can benefit the brain: it causes it to produce hormones that boosts its ability to learn and remember.

When we’re anxious our adrenal glands release the stress hormones adrenalin and cortisol. This response helps our bodies to deal with the immediate crisis we’re facing by increasing heart rate and blood glucose levels to give us energy and also dampening our digestive and and immune system and ability to rest.  Prof Robert Sapolsky, a pioneer in the field of stress, established  that problems can occur if our exposure to the hormones is prolonged. Other research suggests that 80% problems with learning are to do with stress. So learn how to manage stress (some tips from prof Sapolsky). Breathing, meditation, smiling (helps to release endorphines - happy hormones), NLP and EFT (emotional freedom technique)/tapping help to combat stress.

]]> http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/posts/stress-damages-memory/feed 130 million books in the world in total - Google’s estimate http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/posts/130-million-books-google-estimates http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/posts/130-million-books-google-estimates#comments Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:40:47 +0000 admin http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/?p=1578 130 million books: Google’s estimate for the number of unique books ever published - based on its efforts to digitalise them all (to be precise 129,864,880 books in the world). We suggest to learn speed reading fast to catch up with all this reading and read as many summaries as possible. Reading summaries not only saves times but research suggests that we remember more from reading summaries than from reading the whole books. Start with we recommend Passing Time in the Loo: Vol 3 - summaries of all-time great books (over 130 books summaries). Available as an ebook from Amazon Kindle Store (US) and Amazon Kindle Store (UK)

]]> http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/posts/130-million-books-google-estimates/feed 1200 new words entered into the new Oxford Dictionary of English (3rd edition) http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/posts/1200-new-words-entered-into-the-new-oxford-dictionary-of-english-3rd-edition http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/posts/1200-new-words-entered-into-the-new-oxford-dictionary-of-english-3rd-edition#comments Sat, 07 Aug 2010 14:01:23 +0000 admin http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/?p=1572 The latest edition of Oxford Dictionary of English will have 1200 new words. Words such as bromance, chillax, freemium, quantitative easing, deleveraging, spot-buy, paywell, vuvuzela, waterboarding, exit strategy, surge, rogue estate, and so on. Some old words will be see the exit - cassette deck, flashcube, internaut, cyberslacker. More on new entries read…
Related blogs: The words that tell the story how we live - top words of the decade

]]> http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/posts/1200-new-words-entered-into-the-new-oxford-dictionary-of-english-3rd-edition/feed Ebooks outsell hardbacks on Amazon’s Kindle http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/posts/ebooks-outsell-hardbacks-on-amazons-kindle http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/posts/ebooks-outsell-hardbacks-on-amazons-kindle#comments Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:17:10 +0000 admin http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/?p=1567 More people buy ebooks than hardbacks.
The pace of change in publishing is accelerating. Over the past few weeks the sales rate of ebooks had reached 180 for every 100 hardbacks sold. Stieg Larsson (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and Stephenie Meyer (The Twilight saga) each selling more than 500 000 digital versions. James Patterson has sold 1.1m ebooks.

]]> http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/posts/ebooks-outsell-hardbacks-on-amazons-kindle/feed NLP CONFERENCE, London 12-14 November 2010, Reader to Speed Reader to Spd Rdr http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/posts/nlp-conference-london-12-14-november-2010-reader-to-speed-reader-to-spd-rdr http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/posts/nlp-conference-london-12-14-november-2010-reader-to-speed-reader-to-spd-rdr#comments Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:12:37 +0000 admin http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/?p=1554 We’re giving a short presentation at the NLP Conference in London on Sunday 14th November, 2010 at 1330 - 1415.
Reader to Speed Reader to Spd Rdr
Many people perceive themselves as slow readers. But becoming a speed reader is not just about reading more quickly. As Einstein said, you can’t solve the problem on the level at which it’s been created. When we shift to a new level of identity the appropriate behaviours will follow. This session will give you some of the skills required to become a speed reader. When you leave the session, you can expect to be reading about twice as fast as when you came in, but more importantly, you should be getting through up to 10 times more material in the time you have available.

]]> http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/posts/nlp-conference-london-12-14-november-2010-reader-to-speed-reader-to-spd-rdr/feed Hot tips for e-readers: use heatmap map of passages or collective wisdom http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/posts/hot-tips-for-e-readers-use-heatmap-map-of-passages-or-collective-wisdom http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/posts/hot-tips-for-e-readers-use-heatmap-map-of-passages-or-collective-wisdom#comments Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:16:14 +0000 admin http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/?p=1556 Kindle ebooks allow to share individual insights into the ebooks. E-readers can aggregate their experience of a text, so that anyone can identify those passages that collective wisdom had identified as particularly pertinent. Enough ereaders need to highlight a passage to be visible to others as an aggregate or a reading heat map. It’s a great idea to save time reading ebooks by showing key passages illuminated by layering all readers’ highlights for the same text. More insights into ebooks, e-reading, etc

]]> http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/posts/hot-tips-for-e-readers-use-heatmap-map-of-passages-or-collective-wisdom/feed Amazone’s new Kindle e-book reader http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/posts/amazones-new-kindle-e-book-reader http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/posts/amazones-new-kindle-e-book-reader#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:40:43 +0000 admin http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/?p=1562 The new Amazon’s device for reading ebooks costs £100 and is a size of of a paperback book. Will it change the way we read ebook? It can store up to 3500 ebooks and one can download new titles in seconds from the online catalogue of more than 400 000 ebooks. Amazon is already selling most of ebooks for $9.99 (£7.53) and promises to undercut prices of paper books and ebooks rivals such as Apple and Sony. “In the US we now sell more electronic books than physical ones and we are happy to bring this to the UK,” said Steve Kessel, Amazon Kindle’s senior vice president. (To be exact, it had sold 143 ebooks for every 100 hardbacks). I’ve been using Kindle on my iPhone and iPad (and on my Mac) for some time now and I love it. Download Kindle for FREE to your mobile, iPad or PC/Mac and start ereading. To save time on reading start with book summaries. We recommend: Passing Time in the Loo: Vol 3 - Book Summaries (Summaries of Classics, Novels, Plays, Short Stories, Children’s Classics and Operas) [Kindle Edition] -  more than 150 books summarised. And to brush on Shakespeare: Passing Time in the Loo: Shakespeare - Summaries of Shakespeare’s Greatest Sonnets and Plays (Comedies, Tragedies, Histories) (Passing Time in the Loo: … Glimpse Of His World And Greatest Plays) [Kindle Edition]

]]> http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/posts/amazones-new-kindle-e-book-reader/feed Do people read slower on Kindle and iPad? http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/posts/do-people-read-slower-on-kindle-and-ipad http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/posts/do-people-read-slower-on-kindle-and-ipad#comments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:58:23 +0000 admin http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/?p=1542 Recent research by the Nielsen Norman Group found that it takes longer to read books on a Kindle or an iPad than in print. On average reading speeds declined by 6.2% on the iPad and 10.7 on the Kindle compared with print versions.  I personally think I’m reading much more in volume on my iPad and iPhone, simply because it’s more convenient and accessible way of processing information. I believe once we read more on portable devices such as iPad and iPhone we’ll develop our ability to read ebooks faster than print books.  The sales of ebooks on Amazon overtook the print sales for the first time last Christmas. Read more on this study

]]> http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/posts/do-people-read-slower-on-kindle-and-ipad/feed The origins of literacy http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/posts/the-origins-of-literacy http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/posts/the-origins-of-literacy#comments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:43:47 +0000 admin http://www.spdrdng.com/category/posts/?p=1540 Read this interesting article on the origins of literacy and why reading may involve unlearning older skills. The Economist

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