We’re delighted to announce that for a very limited period you can get a Free ebook if you pay for ReadPal up front. It does not affect our no-quibble returns policy.

The book takes you through the principles of speed reading, gives you exercises to improve your raw speed and your visual span. Typically people double or treble their reading speed.

So happy and very fast reading.

(If you prefer you can buy the book direct from Amazon).

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Your free trail version of ReadPal now comes prestocked with a dozen classic eBooks. The books remain yours even if you don’t buy ReadPal - they remain in the ReadPal Library folder.

Click here to download it directly and start reading in two minutes!

The Thirty-Nine Steps, by John Buchan

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll

Dracula, by Bram Stoker

Dream Psychology, by Dr Sigmund Freud

Grimms’ Fairy Tales

Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain

Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë

Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Crime and Punishment, by Fyordor Dostoyevski

The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells

The Bible, (New Testament), King James version

With ReadPal you can read these books much faster on-screen (42% faster), with MUCH greater ease and comfort. You’ll even be able to read outside or comfortably in bed! For the student who needs to revise quickly we also have AutoSkim that removes unimportant words letting you reread, revise and relive the book at much greater speeds. As ever,our thanks to Project Gutenberg for the texts.
Go to readpal for all things reading….

Apparently English has ~250,000 words. But only one word for eyes. This is a travesty. English is lacking key words … e.g. there is no word or even short hand for the early morning – as in the early morning when you’ve been out clubbing the night before as opposed to getting up early for work. You arrive home at say 3-5am, there is no easy way to describe this time period. People from Northern Ireland call them the “wee hours” but this is not specific enough and it is two words as opposed to “afternoon”.

Any suggestions would be welcome.

Language and reading lovers visit ReadPal for more.

ReadPal uses a number of tricks in order to optimise the reading experience for the user. For instance, headings are displayed for a longer period of time and are followed by a pause. There is a pause after a sentence and a longer one after a paragraph. This greatly helps you to absorb the words at a higher speed. However, as one document is very different to the next the user would need to wildly adjust the ‘actual’ words per minute in order to read at his or her maximum speed. To save the user this trouble they just set a speed that is optimal for them on any given document. ReadPal then allows these variations in the documents to passively adjust the actual words per minute for a good reading experience.

There are about a dozen factors that influence the actual words per minute, these differ from the Sentence to the Banner modes. E.g. in the Sentence mode short sentences are displayed for a disproportionately long period because there is some ‘dead time’ while the eye adjusts to the new sentence and this is (obviously) proportionately greater for short sentences.

Also note that the words per screen is an ‘intelligent’ average that makes reading easier by not treating all words as equal. “The cat sat…” is easier to read than “…institutionalized autocratic tendencies…” so they are treated differently, even though both are three words long.

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The late, great Conan Doyle was born on this day in 1859. The Godfather of murder mystery is best remembered for his Sherlock Holmes series. You can download The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes for free at ReadPal. I particularly like this first story A Scandal in Bohemia.
(Many thanks again to Project Gutenberg - that wonderful resource of free texts).

As with any long text the only way you’ll read it on-screen is with ReadPal.� Download it here.

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I note that grey’s anatomy is suddenly very popular in the blog searches. I am guessing this is yet another phenomenon due to the Da Vinci Code. The anatomical drawings / dead body mimicking them come from Leonardo Da Vinci’s notebooks. (These are available in text form, sorry only text, via ReadPal).
In relation to Grey’s Anatomy. I studied it in med college a long while ago and found that despite its great name it wasn’t very good for studying. It was trading on its heritage as the first great tome of anatomy.

If you are looking for free anatomy books you’ll find some at Project Gutenberg. They’ll be a bit old and verbose but you can’t complain when it’s free. Also anatomy is the ‘perfect science’ - i.e. the body hasn’t changed and there is little gross anatomy that can be left to discover. We are not going to discover a second nose!

Happy reading, as ever,

L.

In honour of the Karl Rove’s indictment (?anticipated indictment) I’ve pasted up the Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevski. There’s a moral lesson in it for us all. How our actions continue to haunt us - even if we don’t get caught. (Many thanks again to Project Gutenberg - that wonderful resource of free texts).

As with any long text the only way you’ll read it on-screen is with ReadPal.

Download trial copy here to read Crime and punishment and lots more free ebooks.

In honour of the Da Vinci Code’s release I’ve pasted up the notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci – so you can do some background research. (Many thanks again to Project Gutenberg - that wonderful resource of free texts).

As with any long text the only way you’ll read it on-screen is with ReadPal.

Download trial copy here and lots more free ebooks.

Leonardo Da Vinci’s notebooks

Hi,

Just alerting you that we have posted up a number of classic ebooks up on a hidden page in ReadPal. For those lovers of saucy literature we’ve included Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte.
Jane Eyre and other books
Jane Eyre was published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It met with general acclaim until it became known that a woman had written it. It was not thought that a woman could write such a passionate novel and seem so knowing sexually. There was concern for her moral welfare as some of the book dealt with the “grosser and more animal portion of our nature”.

Happy reading,

L.