>> Of course, speed reading gets some meaning lost.
The whole premise of this article is that it does not, that "speed reading" is reading faster without losing meaning, and this is precisely what most people cannot actually do.
The author calls the activity you are referring to "skimming", and says it is what most people do.
No. Skimming is when you reading linearly and then decide "OK, I can probably skip this paragraph". Speed reading is the way to read in parallel, without ever tracking sentences word by word.
The whole premise of this article is that it does not, that "speed reading" is reading faster without losing meaning, and this is precisely what most people cannot actually do.
The author calls the activity you are referring to "skimming", and says it is what most people do.