Fastr is a speed reading app for iPad, claims that it can increase speed reading skills by 300%. We can use whatever speed reading skills we used for reading conventional books with eBooks as well. I use a stylus instead of the finger tip to read the eBooks and I am able to read faster. If Fastr does as it promises then it will be a good tool to have in iOS.
Eldars Loginovs, the CEO and co-founder, said the app can improve a person’s reading speed by anywhere from 30% to 300%. Typically, a normal reader, reading in their own language, can read at about 240 words a minute. But Mr. Loginovs says speeds of 600 words a minute are easily achievable.
I haven't tried this app to see how good it works, it has low positive reviews, but it is too early to say that it is good or bad, Wall Street Journal gives it a OK. There are however, some good speed reading instruction books like Peter Kump's Breakthrough Rapid Reading, Evelyn Wood 7-Day Speed Reading book by Stanley D. Frank, Tony Buzan's Speed Reading, which I think are much better and logical ones to read first.
If you use any other speed reading technique either reading conventional books or eBooks, please leave a comment.