Another non-visualiser here. I agree with Elfwreck, the speed at which I read would make it impossible to have a ful blown movie playing in my head, but I don't think of this as automatically a good thing.
I do find my comprehension of a books texts and themes can be good in general, but I do forget character names, which order the scenes happened in etc. When studying novels, I had to read once in my own way, then go through the book again making notes. I found the act of writing down info from the book was the only way to put the brakes on my reading speed.
Even when reading for full comprehension of a text, I don't visualise anything, I just don't think I am a person whose most important tool for interpreting the world is sight. I don't have a vision problem, I just am not very good at recognizing things by how they look, if that makes any sense! When I think of someone I know, I will think about their personality, and the way they talk. I only ever identity someone by how they look if they have a very distinctive, or peculiar, feature or style (for example, they have a huge moustache, or they always wear hats).
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