You’ve probably heard of speed reading, the technique that takes you from an average of 200 wpm for a “normal” reader to 700-900 wpm? Well, this is no joke. Although it will take a lot of practice to get there, you too will manage to read very quickly!

how to read a book a day?

Don’t read verbatim, syllable by syllable. Let your eyes jump from important words (usually longer) to important words: you don’t need to read the verb to be or to have the articles, most of the pronouns. These words, if you read them in your head, are just a waste of time.
Put a piece of paper between your lips, and read a text. The paper should never move and even less fall: if it does, you are saying what you are reading. We call it subvocalization: it’s a huge waste of time because we very rarely manage to speak above 150 words per minute, whereas here, we are aiming for 800 words per minute! Reading the text in your head, therefore, slows you down enormously.

Don’t read your book in order. A novel, yes – a textbook or a research book, no. I have already told you about spotting the passages that interest you based on the questions you ask yourself: if you read a book without a goal in mind, you will not remember what was important to you. Read the complex passages slower and the “fill” faster to focus on what is really important.

Train yourself. Yes, it is very silly, but it is very important! The more you read, the faster you will go. Imagine a professional sprinter: he has to run every day to achieve extraordinary speed, and he was no better than you when he first started practicing his art! The same goes for reading.

There are also some great sites that let you read book summaries in minutes, with the most important elements. This is especially useful for self-help-type books, where authors often spend several dozen pages on something that could be explained in one paragraph.