[aaren]

I see your point :) but for short pieces like this I find I can store most of it in memory. I did jump into the full text a few times to refer back to things.

I probably couldn't tell you much about the article now, but I felt I got it at the time.

[lutusp]

There are lots of theories about how we absorb printed information, but few of them are backed up by reliable science. Hopefully this will change in the future. But speed-reading schemes have a particularly spotty record in the cause-effect and repeatable evidence department.