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Be concise and to the point. Next you want to have your eBook read by someone that is not afraid to give you constructive criticism. Ideally, this should be a competent editor or a qualified person in your field, someone who can give you honest feedback about your writing style and the execution of your ideas. Check out some of our proofreading tips. Before you share your eBook use online proofreading tools like Grammarly to get rid of all the spelling and grammar mistakes.
As always, you have lots of choices. Of course, not all PDFs work well on all devices. EPUB format. Plus, if you care about those things, it uses HTML5 and is fully compliant with the latest web standards. The next important step is to choose your ebook creation software. Believe us, the software you choose makes a huge difference to how easy it is to create a content upgrade or lead magnet. Here are some of the features to look for. Choose ebook design software with a wide range of ebook design templates that you can customize to meet your needs and match your branding.
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That ensures that you always have an ebook in the right format , no matter what your audience uses to access the content. The final step is actually creating your ebook. First, name your ebook and choose how you will import your content. Or you can create a blank project. I also share some lessons from it.
Reading a book has been such a chore with my current schedule. One will think that working from home affords you more time but, the contrary is the case.
I find myself moving from my laptop to my multiple phones. The only time I am reading a book is when I am trying to get through the scribblings on my notes.
And oh if it is an ebook that helps with my personal development. This is in addition to keeping up with my finances as I shared at the beginning of the year.
It is in that spirit, that I finally read a hard copy book on money by Akin Alabi in 3hours. I understand that personal development is key especially now and reading forms the core of that. This is why I am sharing how to read a book fast and understand it. As proof that it works, I included lessons that I learnt from the book. Let me start by introducing you to the book by Akin Alabi.
The title is Small Business, Big Money. Like the name implies, it takes you through the process of starting a small business to the point where it begins to generate a lot of money. He is also a legislator in Lagos State. For those who do not live in Nigeria, legislators are our lawmakers and Lagos State is one of the states that makes up the South Western states of Nigeria.
It is the NewYork of Nigeria. The book contains 7 chapters and about pages with the chapters taking up about pages. In my opinion, I will consider the font size to be about You should be able to answer these basic questions if you preview the text properly. Chunk the text into sections. Chunking is when you group words in the text into short, meaningful phrases that are three to five words long. Rather than read every word, and risk forgetting the beginning of a sentence by the time you get to the end of the sentence, you can chunk the text into groups of words that will help you comprehend the text quickly and effectively.
Many teachers will use chunking in the classroom to help students comprehend large texts. You may be given a statement of purpose to guide you as you go through the text and look for specific sections you can chunk together.
Try to use the statement of purpose given to you by your teacher to guide you as you chunk the text. Read the text with a goal in mind. Approaching the text with a question or in a questioning manner can make you a stronger reader and possibly a faster reader. Look at the text as if you were searching for something, or trying to reach a goal. Your reading will now be goal-oriented, allowing you to possibly read faster and not lose your reading comprehension ability.
Challenge your reading rate by practicing with more difficult texts. Once you start to improve your reading rate using assigned texts in a class or out of a book that is considered suitable for your reading level, you should try to vary the types of texts you practice with to improve your reading rate. Varying your texts will also expand your vocabulary and help you avoid having to reread or pause over a certain term or word when you are reading.
Take your time with these types of texts and work on improving your reading rate slowly, over time. Anything is possible! You just need to set aside time to read and make sure you properly comprehend the book. The above article should help you.
Not Helpful 14 Helpful After every five pages, write down what you remember about what you read. Not Helpful 26 Helpful How can I focus on reading when I could be doing something else, like swimming or playing on my phone?
Put aside any distractions like your phone, your games and other stuff. Try reading in a calm area, where any distractions are unlikely. You'll also find this is easier when the book you're reading is a book you enjoy. Not Helpful 4 Helpful Not Helpful 7 Helpful Tom De Backer. Not Helpful 24 Helpful You have to put time aside to read, and keep going.
Remember it's not always about getting it done; enjoy what you read too. Not Helpful 22 Helpful You can annotate a story quickly if you are familiar with the story and use the summary of the story as the bridge. Add fewer lines and add the lines that tell the story only.
No, not unless you're a savant or have some freakish speed-reading capacity and the rare people who are capable of that usually have some severe impairments in other areas.
There are only hours in a week, and that's not even accounting for sleeping time Not Helpful 25 Helpful Try to read it with passion, maybe pretend that you like the book or you could make some of your friends or family read this book to you.
Not Helpful 31 Helpful How do I learn not to self-vocalize while reading and understand what is written the first time without having to go back over it? Just practice reading in your head or have someone help you by reminding you not to self vocalize. Read at your speed at the moment, don't try to read faster than you can handle.
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When you read, act out the book in your mind like a play. Helpful 10 Not Helpful 0. This seems surprising since most readers, actively reading work documents, newspapers, magazines, books or the contents of a computer display are practicing daily for at least one hour. With such an intense training everyone should be close to top performances. Unfortunately, this is far from the real situation. The average reader is five times slower than the good reader.
Things are even worse if we consider reading efficiency as well as speed. Thus, an efficiency ratio of seven divides these two categories. Compare the results of the average reader to other areas. We may imagine a sprinter practicing every day for several years on the running track and then just calmly walking for a race.
We can also picture a racing driver never exceeding 30 mph or a pianist playing every day of the week for 20 years and only able to play music like a beginner.
Unfortunately, since the age of 12, most readers do not substantially improve their efficiency and never reach their full capacity. Every computer-user who is also a slow typist is aware of the benefits he could obtain with a typing course, but nearly no one suspects the much higher profits he could reach by improving his reading comprehension and speed. The rapid improvement of voice recognition may gradually make typing virtuosity obsolete since a good typist performs well under the speed of speech.
On the other hand, human or computer speaking, with an average speed of wpm, will always remain many times slower than a good reader, without any consideration of the skimming and skipping possibilities. There are three possible ways to improve reading.
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