Read a book in less than an hour

If you are into reading books, one of the best skills to master is the skimming technique. The idea is to grasp the book in under an hour and figure out whether reading cover to cover is worth your time.

Skimming in a nutshell is essentially:

• Read the title, headings, subheadings
• Read the table of contents
• Read the end of important chapters (last paragraphs that summarise the idea)
• Read random paragraphs or a sequence of pages of a chapter
• Read the index pages
• Read the publisher blurb