Reading Mastery

Enhanced Reading
Lucy Heartfilia (Fairy Tail) can read at incredible speeds using her Gale-Force Reading Glasses.
Power/Ability to:	Read at an inhumanly fast level

"Wait, wait, almost finished."

"Candace, you stayed up all night just to finish that book?"

"No, no. We finished the whole collection."

― Candance Flynn and Lawrence Fletcher (Phineas and Ferb)

"You have read enough fantasy novels to choke a hippogriff!"

― Bart Simpson (The Simpsons)

The power to read at an inhumanly fast level. Technique of Literary Manipulation.

Also Called

• Gale-Force Reading
• Speed Reading

Capabilities

The user can read at unrealistic speeds while still retaining all of the information read. They have intuitive knowledge on how to pronounce any word in a language that they know.

Applications

• Can quickly and thoroughly analyze large amounts of information.
• Can read a large book within seconds.
• Know how to read any word.

Associations

• Encyclopedic Knowledge
• Enhanced Intelligence
• Enhanced Memory
• Enhanced Speed
• Instant Learning
• Literary Manipulation

Limitations

• May not be able to understand what you read.
• Some users may develop slight headaches.
• May only be able to retain information temporarily.

Known Users

See Also: Super Speed Reading.

• Dantalion (As Miss Beelzebub Likes It)
• The Doctor (Doctor Who)
• Users of Gale-Force Reading Glasses (Fairy Tail)
• Samuel (Fairy Tail)
• Steve Rogers/Captain America (Marvel Comics)
• Kid Of Padre (Los Protegidos)
• Haruka Koumi (Rail Wars)
• Jack O'Neill (Stargate SG-1); when wearing the Atanik armband
• Daniel Jackson (Stargate SG-1); when wearing the Atanik Armband
• Candace Flynn (Phineas and Ferb)
• Chase Davenport (Lab Rats)
• Clark Kent/Kal-El/Superman (DC Comics)
• Speedsters (DC Comics)
• Chloe Sullivan (Smallville); when under Brainiac's influence
• Ozymandias (Watchmen)
• WordGirl (WordGirl)
• The Lone Wanderer (Fallout 3)
• Alexandria (Worm)
• The Courier (Fallout New Vegas)
• Dylan Piper (Halloweentown)
• Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
• Lore (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
• Rohit Mehra (Krrish series)
• Kenshirō Kasumi (Fist of the Blue Sky)
• Users of the Stream (Outer Limits)
• Aika Tenkuubashi (Shomin Sample)
• Raven (Teen Titans)
• Librarians (The Magicians)
  • Zelda Schiff
• Members of the Mensa Springfield Chapter (The Simpsons)
• Kyouko Toshino (Yuru Yuri)
• Twilight Sparkle (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
• Unnamed player character (Foreign Creature 2)
• Papermasters (Read or Die/R.O.D. the TV)
  • Yomiko Readman
  • Anita King
  • Michelle Cheung
  • Maggie Mui
• Nancy Makuhari (Read or Die/R.O.D. the TV)
• Belle (Disney's Beauty and the Beast)

Known Objects

• Gale-Force Reading Glasses (Fairy Tail)
• The Stream (The Outer Limits)
• Atanik Armbands (Stargate SG-1)

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Samuel (Fairy Tail) can read at high speeds.

Speedsters like The Flash (DC Comics) can temporarily assimilate knowledge through reading with his Super-Speed powers.

Kenshirō Kasumi (Fist of the Blue Sky)

Becky Botsford/WordGirl (WordGirl!) has the ability to read very fast

Dylan Piper (Return to Halloweentown) uses magic to read rapidly.

Player character (Foreign Creature series) reading an entire bookshelf instantly.

Player character (Foreign Creature series) reading all information stored within the internet.

Twilight Sparkle (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

Belle (Disney's Beauty and the Beast)

Raven (Teen Titans)

Video

Smallville 8x03 Toxic IV-0

Chloe Sullivan (Smallville) reads and processes data at lightning speed while under Brainiac's influence.