If I can't read it, I won't!

[ezdays]

In my high school years, when I was just a wee lad, I spent many hours proofreading student's theme papers and such.
I found it very helpful to look at everything backward, one word at a time. I don't mean "read" the individual words backward, just start at the end of the sentence, paragraph, page or whatever.
Try it, you'll like it!

You know, that's the exact thing that one of my editors told me how he learned to proofread. he did go on to say, that when he did it that way, he had plenty of time and the things he was proofing were just a few pages long.