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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
In my case I never actually "learned to speed read" it just happened naturally. Sure there are times and books I like to mull over but for most of the time and for large parts of most books I don't feel the need.
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Same here - just happened naturally. I can read pretty much any novel in 2-3 hours (books like LOTR excepted - that would take me an entire weekend), but I know very well that I'm missing a lot of the details in "scanning" a page rather than reading it line by line.
That's actually the reason why I so much enjoy listening to audiobooks, I think. There's no way to "scan" an audio book; it comes to you one line at a time and that's the way you hear it. I know that, after listening to an audiobook of a book that I've previously read on paper, I'm often surprised at all the details that I've missing when reading it on paper.