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17 Aug 2000
I appreciate the opportunity you are giving me to expose my ideas about reading, and I will be glad to do it.
First of all let me give you a resume of my background. As I told you, I was born in Argentina, 47 years ago. When I was 7, my family and I left to Peru, because of my father's job, where we spent 8 years. We went back to Argentina where I finished my school and I got into the university (Universidad de Buenos Aires) to study Computer Science. I was very young at that time, not even 16 yet, but I took the challenge with a lot of optimism. Because of my father's job we left Argentina again, but this time to Costa Rica, where I started my career in Burroughs Corporation, Unisys - in those days, a multinational computer corporation. This took me to Nicaragua and Mexico, and after 15 years working in different technical positions, I left the company to create my own business in computing consulting, which is my present occupation.
One day, a speed reading book came into my hands and after reading it and practicing the techniques it suggested, I discovered that we all have unused skills that could make us read in a much better way. I thought that computers could help us in developing this skill, so I joined the efforts of a few, but very professional, specialists and created the Intelligent Reading Method, a software program that teaches the speed reading techniques in only 5 hours. After meticulous testing and adjustment, we presented the program to people in 1996. We received the support of important educational institutions here in Guadalajara, and in the next 3 years we trained almost 6,000 students using our software. In 1999 I reprogrammed the software to make use of the latest techniques and I was also able to get the financial support of local entrepreneurs to work in our Web project. I wrote my first book about reading which I divided into 14 chapters with the idea of sending one each week to every subscriber in the data base opened on my site. Right now, I have almost 4,000 suscribers and I receive hundreds of emails each week interchanging comments and points of view in educational matters. This experience plus my participation in forums and as speaker in symposiums and conferences allowed me to rearrange that first book giving as a result: "Efficient reading: base of productivity" which is the one that "Editorial Agata" will publish in a few weeks.
I apologize for the size of this resume, but I wanted you to know that what I have written in my book is not just some crazy ideas that came to me last weekend. Everything there is based on the experience of many years, first as a pupil, next as a parent and finally as a professional. In the next email I will try to send you a resume of the book and I will be glad to give you my point of view about your comments. If anyone would like to visit my web site the address is: http://www.readingventure.com . Up to now it is in Spanish, but I hope soon to have it in English.
Regards and thank you for your time.
Eduardo
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