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latepaul · 10-11-2013, 10:11 AM

I scored 311wpm and 100% accuracy. Which surprises me because I track my wpm on a per-book basis. According to that I average 227wpm and have gone as low as 170.

I'm ambivalent about reading speed. On the on hand sometimes I feel it would be nice to get through my TBR pile a bit quicker. On the other, 8 hours of reading a good book is 8 hours of pleasure so if I'm enjoying it why not savour it, why reduce it to 6? Of course that argument falls apart when the book is not that good but not bad enough to abandon.

10-11-2013, 10:11 AM	#35
latepaul Wizard Posts: 1,270 Karma: 10468300 Join Date: Dec 2011 Device: a variety (mostly kindles and kobos)	I scored 311wpm and 100% accuracy. Which surprises me because I track my wpm on a per-book basis. According to that I average 227wpm and have gone as low as 170. I'm ambivalent about reading speed. On the on hand sometimes I feel it would be nice to get through my TBR pile a bit quicker. On the other, 8 hours of reading a good book is 8 hours of pleasure so if I'm enjoying it why not savour it, why reduce it to 6? Of course that argument falls apart when the book is not that good but not bad enough to abandon.