ZAP Reader is a speed-reading program designed to help you quickly read any text you choose. It works like this:
you copy and paste text you'd like to get through quickly (ZAP Reader's default speed is 300 words per minute) into the Reader or use the ZAP Reader bookmarklet to load text selected on a web page and push play.
ZAP Reader will throw words at you one at a time in quick succession, and you just sit back and take it in.
After trying it out a few times, it does seem to pick up my speed a bit.



If ZAP Reader isn't your thing, try Speed-Reading Techniques by Keith Drury at Indiana Wesleyan University. He has published an article on different speed-reading techniques that you can use to speed up and tweak your reading.
I was a Bible college student when one of our chapels featured a guest speaker who taught us how to speed-read. At the time I didn't need the skill since most collateral reading assignments in my courses were under 500 pages, but I started practicing just for the fun of it -- sort of like a private parlor game. However all that changed when I wound up in graduate school at Princeton Seminary and several Profs. expected me to read several thousand pages of collateral along with the five or six textbooks. That's when I got serious about speed reading. Here is the collection of what I practiced then, and picked up since.