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 <p>Test: [2020-09-09 Wed] Skimming exercise 3 - I read it one paragraph at a time, from the beginning. The title was “How to make a million”, but I kept reading stuff like “Styles change, they point out, in millionaires as in millinery”. Interesting, but not relevant to the title - how to make a million.</p>
 <p>What happens if I look over the essay once to find out its “structure”? First, I notice that there are 27 paragraphs. In paragraph 5, he starts a list of three points that lasts till the end. In fact, the first two points are not how-tos, they’re just warnings about the difficulty of making a million on a salary. The third point is itself a list of three money-making “gimmicks” and is basically the meat of the essay. I could have safely skipped the previous 17 paragraphs. That’s nearly two-thirds of the entire essay. I would have basically tripled my reading speed with this one weird trick.</p>
+<h1 id="chapter-10">Chapter 10</h1>
+<p>Selection 16: 978 wpm. Skimmed a lot of the details.</p>
+<p>Selection 17: 1021 wpm.</p>
+<p>Selection 18: 1036 wpm.</p>
 
 <div class="info">Created: September  4, 2020</div>
-<div class="info">Last modified: September 10, 2020</div>
+<div class="info">Last modified: September 12, 2020</div>
 <div class="info">Status: in-progress notes</div>
 <div class="info"><b>Tags</b>: notes, read</div>