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Originally Posted by DMB
I find that looking words up interrupts the reading flow. And what I do if necessary is make a mental note and look things up afterwards.
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Fair enough. My reading is rather slow, and I distract myself easily, so I don't care about the occasional lookup (once per chapter, say). Anyway, nowadays I mostly read books I create myself, and 99% of my distractions are to note corrections I must make (or check) to the source text.
As for the kind of works that I might need a dictionary for, I sometimes want to know exactly what kind of carriage, what shape of sail, what sort of tropical fruit, what colour of bird, etc. a writer is talking about.