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Originally Posted by silverraven
Maybe we should split the poll into books that take a brain vs. books that don't??
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I read genre fiction quickly. But some few books require weeks or even months such as Ovid's Metamorphoses or John Hemming's Conquest of the Incas. I'm still mulling over The Satanic Verses. That is why I'm often reading at least a couple of books concurrently: always one for the pure joy of the story and one that I am trying to understand by applying skills learned long ago from Mortimer Adler's How to Read a Book. The second, strenuous kind of reading is immensely satisfying, but tiring. The first kind is relaxing and rejuvenating. I need and love both.
I never skim through anything while reading a book. If a book contains words or pronunciation new to me, I often read along while listening to an audio book. So far this year I've read 113 books, many of them very long. I love MR because in this forum my reading habits are not unusual, but more the norm.