Want to read faster? Try ZAP Reader. It's a free web app that will, in theory, as much as quadruple your reading speed. It works like this: You find some text you want to read fast, you paste it into ZAP Reader and hit Play, and ZAP Reader starts flashing the words on the screen. You can control the speed it goes at (it starts at 30 words per minute) and pause it, and you can skip backward or forward. I tried it and was surprised at how fast I was able to push myself, though I found that only being able to see one word at a time made my brain skip a beat on words I'm not used to, in particular trade names. ZAP Reader also has a bookmarklet which, when clicked, will automatically feed any text you've selected into ZAP Reader. You can see a video of ZAP Reader in action after the jump.