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Originally Posted by Xanthe
Count me as another person who also has always wondered why anyone would want to speedread. It always seemed as if it would remove the fun from reading.
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I think that most people that read often are speed readers. Or it might be helpful if you grow up in a country where films have subtitles. I can tell the difference if I am trying to read in a language that I'm not sufficiently familiar with and I have to say the words in my mind.
I was looking at the wikipedia article on speed reading and what I had considered speed reading before is technically skimming. This is something that I was used to doing before tests and for casual reading I still do if I didn't finish reading a book a while ago and I want to pick up where I left off.
I occasionally read at a speed between my normal reading speed and skimming speed if the book that I'm reading has some tedious descriptions or monologues.