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slayda · 12-04-2010, 01:01 PM

I'll relate two incidents about reading from my college days:

I took a speed reading course & the class was asked "How many books have you read in the last year?" All answers were in the single digits until it got to me. Since I spent some time studying, I estimated my reading was down to about 50.
Later after college while on a business trip to a very small town in the west a friend (who was also a reader) told me about another coworker who had made it through college without reading a single book, even for school work.

I found both of these to be totally astonishing. I can't imagine life without reading.

12-04-2010, 01:01 PM	#93
slayda Retired & reading more! Posts: 2,764 Karma: 1884247 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: North Alabama, USA Device: Kindle 1, iPad Air 2, iPhone 6S+, Kobo Aura One	I'll relate two incidents about reading from my college days: I took a speed reading course & the class was asked "How many books have you read in the last year?" All answers were in the single digits until it got to me. Since I spent some time studying, I estimated my reading was down to about 50. Later after college while on a business trip to a very small town in the west a friend (who was also a reader) told me about another coworker who had made it through college without reading a single book, even for school work. I found both of these to be totally astonishing. I can't imagine life without reading.