If you have a lot of reading to do and not a lot of time, you might want to consider checking out Spreeder. It allows you to upload or copy chunks of text and then spits it back to you in a steady flow of words. Here’s why it works:

…the idea behind speed reading is that we can process information much faster than we actually do in real life with a book in our hands. Several factors affect our reading speed, like subvocalization (the little voice inside our heads that reads along with us and slows us down), backtracing (rereading parts over and over again), etc.

The purpose behind apps like these is to train our minds to get rid of all the other crap. So, by having a steady input of text, we erase our dependency on backtracing. By increasing the reading speed, subvocalization can’t keep up and eventually goes away. The key here is that we don’t need to subvocalize to process information, as much as we may think we do.

You can adjust the words per minute and number of words shown at once so don’t worry if it starts out too fast for you. So stop subvocalizating and start reading like a pro.

Thanks Evan for the link.