Reading the Harry Potter Marathon

'Speed-reading often produces a confused understanding—in some cases, a completely fabricated one, the researchers reported. They quoted Woody Allen’s classic line: “I took a speed-reading course where you run your finger down the middle of the page and was able to read War and Peace in 20 minutes. It’s about Russia.” (To give you a sense of the persistence of speed-reading claims, Allen likely made that joke in the mid-1960s.) '

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