Viral Grape Vine

This is the FREE FREE FREE cliff note version of Speed Reading for Dummies

by

Brett H Bumeter

ViralGrapeVine - VGV

Produced by Softduit Media Softduit Media

Copyright 2008 all rights reserved (and all parking spaces reserved too)

The Word Dummies is probably trademarked and so to all you Dummies publishers, please look at this as my application to publish the full version of this book. I’ve read your standards and will be most happy to comply with them if you give me a green light and a big fat contract (or even an anemic contract with a free years supply of Gorgonzola cheese thrown in on the side …)

Chapter 1 Introduction to Speed Reading Magazines

First you need some magazines, have someone go and get you a stack of magazines that if stacked safely would reach up in the air 1,000 feet.

Tip! Don’t let yourself know that someone is buying you 1,000 feet of magazines. It is the key to speed reading success if you never know how much you truly will have to read.

Chapter 2 Speed Reading Preparation

Set yourself up in a well lit room. Sun light is too bright for your eyes. We recommend flourescent tube lighting on egg shell white walls.

Also, you will need a large flat surfaced desk with nothing on it, especially no computer with email running. Turn off any device that makes sound like a mp3 player or tv.

Tip! Equipping your room with a jabbering friend or loved one can actually help to increase your reading speed and retention as you simultaneously learn to block out their wasted breath. In fact, their endless obnoxious jabbering can actually become an incentive to read more and faster, as you will be able to tell them endlessly in response, “I’m sorry I have this big stack of magazines that I have to read today.”

Chapter 3 The Stacks

Just like in a library, you must have stacks of magazines in order to fully engage your mind and get up to the proper reading speed. Its the same type of thing with cars that even at idle (with no brakes applied) will often travel at 3-10 mph (5 - 14 kmh) when the accelerator is not even depressed. The cars move because they have lots of road before them and no one gets anywhere going at speeds approaching zero.

Just like that car, you need to see plenty of road before you and so at this point you need to arrange for a 2 foot stack of magazines to be delivered to your home or location every day by 8:30 am.

The magazines should be delivered in a canvas bag (a big ass sack of a bag) and organized as if someone dumped them into the bag from the back of a truck with a pitch fork.

Advanced - If you can get someone to actually do this, you will achieve better results much faster than your peers!

Tip! Magazines do not fill in gaps well, so in the spaces at the edge of the bag you should also arrange for some bonus reading material to be inserted in the form of random internet pages that have been printed onto sheets of paper. When this paper is stacked it should be about 6 - 12 inches high (that’s in female inches or as measured by a female as guys are known to exagerate the measurement of anything under a meter.)

Chapter 5 Unloading your stack

After your bag of material arrives, drop the heavy damn bag on the floor from a height of no less than 1 meter. The bag full of magazines should make a deep ‘Whummppph!’ sound. This is very important as it will help ingrane in your psyche that there is a lot of shit to read and should therefore help give your hypocampus or hypoglamus or one of those hippo sounding brainy glands a jolt like a dolphin stunning fish with sonar.

Question - Why is it OK for whales and dolphins to stun fish with sonar, but it is not OK for the navy to stun whales and dolphins with sonar?

I like dolphins and whales more than fish, but I smell a fishy double standard at play here.

Once your Whump Whummpph bag has been dropped, you should proceed to pull out magazines and papers in a two handed grab. Take your grab of material and set it on your desk. Then methodically and neetly organize it into a perfect stack.

Take the first paper or magazine off the stack, grab a highlighter and a pen, and then open the magazine. Read the magazine really really really fast from left to right and top to bottom unless you are reading hebrew or arabic then read right to left and top to bottom or if you are reading Chinese or Japanese then read top to bottom and left to right or if you are a part Japanese reading arabic and you also happen to be Walleyed and Dislexic then write to me in chicken scratch as if dictated to a one fingered baboon and I will custom pen a version of this book for you by 2015.

Chapter 6 Taking Notes as you go

If you read something important, write why its important write on the page. Highlight only things you will quote.

Then rip the page out of the magazine you are reading and stack neatly in a new stack on the upper left hand corner of your desk.

Repeat this reading and note taking process for 2 hours or until you have a 2 inch stack of papers with important stuff on it.

Then take a 40 minute break to write all that stuff up on a computer.

Chapter 7 What to do with the Used Stack

We all must dutifully work to protect our environment. Therefore, it is absolutely essential that you do everything in your power to recycle the magazines and paper appropriately and in a timely manner.

Do this before the day is out. Do not leave any of this material in your home or office as it will dishearten you and sabotage your attempts to do this again tomorrow.

Chapter 7 Repeat

Now just keep reading stacks like this until your friend tells you that there are no more magazines and also then informs you that you have just completed a 1,000 foot stack of magazines, plus 400 feet of other paper materials.

Chapter 8 Diploma

Once you have accomplished this magnificent goal, you can apply to receive a diploma. PayPal me $6 and I will email you a diploma. If you want something fancy and framed, PayPal me $100 plus shipping materials and funds to pay for shipping.

If you want to walk down an aisle in a cap and gown, PayPal me $5,000, I’ll arrange for you to be snuck into a local university where you can hop into line, and walk down the aisle.

Shaking my hand during this process costs extra. PayPal me funds for a first class ticket to wherever you are and I will jump in front of the Dean of the ceremony and shake your hand.

Video commemorating this event. Video for the event is free if you have paid all the other items above. In fact, I promise to publish the video across the internet for the world to see.

Chapter 9 Finding a Job

Unless you want to apply for a job with the US NSA (requires a security clearance), there are no jobs in this field that will serve you well. (slightly better than finding a job selling car parts)

However, there is a competition (urban legend really) where Google is offering a $1 billion cash prize to the first person that can really read through everything and reach the end of the internet before they die.

Good luck!