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Many users find reading onscreen a challenge. Use the tips and techniques below to not only make it easier but learn to mine gold from your emarketing ebooks:

1. Your environment: Lighting should not produce glare. Poor lighting can greatly reduce reading speed. High contrast is preferred on the screen so the print has the greatest clarity. This also improves comprehension.

2. Use speed reading techniques: Use one hand to hit the Page Down key and the other hand to hold and operate a guide such as a ruler. Holding the guide an inch or so away from the screen, move it down at a reasonable rate, or use sweeping motions across the screen. This encourages the eyes to take in larger sections at a time, especially making use of peripheral vision. With regular practice this really speeds up screen reading.

3. Stop every 10 minutes or so and allow your eyes to roam around your surroundings, perhaps focusing on a distant object. This helps eliminate eye fatigue.

4. Remember you are not reading a novel for relaxation. You are skimming through the material with one purpose - to sift out the gold which can make a difference to your business.

5. Have a new document open in your word processor.

6. Scan the ebook's outline of contents so you can anticipate what's coming.

7. Start reading objectively. This means you are looking for something! Any idea or suggestion that you can apply to YOUR life or business should be noted in your open document. Enter the page number so you can find it again.

8. Alternatively, if you like working with hard copy, hit the print button. Then use a colored highlighter on the key sentences.

9. After your reading session, set a time to implement or investigate the points you have noted and think: "How can I apply this specifically to my life or business?"

10. Make time each day to scan or read another batch of pages as part of a weekly schedule.