Can Someone Learn Speed Reading?

I remember back in the early 70's,, my mom was talking about speed reading one day and I asked her what that was. She showed me some advertisements in the back of a magazine that she said were for learning to speed read. It was something that held enough interest to me, as the daughter of a guy that read voraciously, that it stuck with me.

I have taken to watching Criminal Minds and they have a character on there, Doctor Reid, that made me think again, for the first time in years, about speed reading.

I never really considered learning speed reading, because my dad read for pleasure and I always equated reading with taking the time to enjoy the story. I need to speed up my reading, however, which over the years I have consciously slowed down in an effort to enjoy reading more.

According to the below video, however, I could speed up my reading and actually enjoy it more. That's surprising. I always thought the only reason to speed up reading was to read faster. I want to start working on reading faster, so since I am reading Timeline already (slowly) I am going to try to implement the below technique of reciting simple sounds as I read to try to stop silently voicing the words. And I know I do that, I often consciously sound out the words, particularly when a character is speaking.