Day 1/30: Speed Read Animal Farm by George Orwell – 128 Pages in 60 Minutes
This is day #1 of the One Book, One Day challenge. We’re going to speed read Animal Farm by George Orwell at 500 words per minute (WPM) using AccelaReader.com.
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About the Book: Animal Farm is a satire on equality by George Orwell where farm animals rebel against their human master’s tyrannical rule. The animals stage a rebellion and establish an idealistic state of justice and progress. Napoleon, a power-hungry pig, becomes a totalitarian dictator who leads Animal Farm to a society where “All Animals Are Equal / But Some Are More Equal Than Others.”
Here are the most common words in the book…
Book Stats:
Pages: 128
How Long To Read: 60 minutes (at 500 WPM)
Published: August 17, 1945
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Paul Nowak
Paul is the founder of Iris Reading, the largest provider of speed-reading and memory courses. His workshops have been taught to thousands of students and professionals worldwide at institutions that include: NASA, Google, HSBC and many Fortune 500 companies.
Comments
Valerie
I just read The Animal Farm – awesome!
Danna
This is really neat! Great way to start the year. Thanks for posting.
Paul Nowak, Founder
Hey Danna,
Thanks for the comment. Yes, definitely a great way to start the new year! I’ve always wanted to catch up on the classics…
We’re now on Day 2/30: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
https://www.irisreading.com/one-book-one-day/day-230-a-christmas-carol-by-charles-dickens-speed-read-the-book-in-57-minutes/
-Paul
-Paul
linda
So if I want to read a different book, where can I get text files like these, that will work well with Accelareader?
Paul Nowak, Founder
Hi Linda,
You can get a lot of full-text versions of books through Project Gutenberg. See here:
https://www.gutenberg.org/
Here are the most popular books on Project Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top
The only thing about it though is that Project Gutenberg only has books that have their copyrights expired.
-Paul
KP
I did it! Looking forward to tomorrow.
Paul Nowak, Founder
Awesome! Here’s the book for Day 2/30… A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Classic…
https://www.irisreading.com/one-book-one-day/day-230-a-christmas-carol-by-charles-dickens-speed-read-the-book-in-57-minutes/
The original version of the book included some pretty cool illustrations which you can see here:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/46/46-h/46-h.htm
Glad to see you’ve started the challenge :-)
-Paul
richard rogg
hi, can this tool be used on the kindle fire on the books i have there?
Paul Nowak, Founder
Hi Richard,
Good question… A few weeks ago I was wondering how to do that and finally figured it out with the help of the following articles…
1.) If you have a Mac, follow the instructions in this article:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/10/drm-be-damned-how-to-protect-your-amazon-e-books-from-being-deleted/
2.) If you have a PC, follow the instructions in this article:
https://www.the-digital-reader.com/2012/06/15/how-add-kindle-drm-removal-plugin-calibre/#.UOtYyYnjlPR
I have a Mac (laptop) and a PC (desktop) and those two articles should work for you as they did for me.
Basically, here’s the gist of it. Once you’ve removed the DRM from the Kindle books using the steps mentioned in the article, you can then convert them to any format you want. I just converted the books to .txt format.
From there I just copy & paste the text into AccelaReader. I usually go chapter-by-chapter rather than pasting the entire book… because I can’t sit in place for more than 15 minutes without getting antsy…
Hope that helps!
-Paul