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Originally Posted by haydnfan
I do subvocalize and can read novels up to a thousand pages long in 8 hours or less. For those that think that is not good enough, you're probably skipping or skimming over sentences that the author spent hours tormenting themselves over and you simply can't be bothered to really appreciate what you're reading.
If it's important to you to read a novel fast, spend less time on other past times and focus on what you're reading. That is the only sure way to enjoy what you're reading and read more novels.
It is the transformation of reading into a consumerist culture of buying and consuming books that leads to so many fools trying everything to read faster, to buy more. Why? So you can start another novel while already thinking about the one ahead of it? Why not focus on enjoying what you're currently reading instead?
I pity those that all they want to do is reader faster just to get to the next thing and do it all over again. You're running on a treadmill.
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1000 pages in 8 hours seems pretty darn fast. That is more than double the average rate assuming we are talking normal average words per page. And subvocalizing and appreciating the language while you are doing it, well I am impressed. You must be a prodigy of some kind.
Helen