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Originally Posted by Katsunami
I also think that one reads fiction much faster than non-fiction. At least, I do. If I read fiction, I just read the story, but if reading non-fiction, I actually study it.
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Me too, plus the non-fiction books I read tend to be longer than the fiction books, and they have endnotes/footnotes which I read. I also highlight more in non-fiction books. I could easily read a 300 page novel in one day if it was interesting, yet an 800 page history or biography might take me two weeks if I keep getting sidetracked to go look up related information in other books/docs. I just finished a 1000+ page biography on Hitler which took me over a year to finish simply because the subject matter was difficult to take in large quantities. I read a chapter here and there and had to put it down for weeks at a time. The biography was well written, but the subject matter was brutal!