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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Long story short: I don't take any pleasure in purposely reading a book at a pace slower than I could comfortably be reading it at. So the only way I could "savor" a book would be to read it in shorter sessions with more time between those sessions. I couldn't imagine anything more frustrating than forcing myself to go through longer periods of NOT reading a book that really want to be reading.
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It sounds as though reading more slowly would be unpleasant for you, which also means it might be unrewarding, so why bother?
Your mention of being uncomfortable with slower speeds mirrors my discomfort at letting the colors go by too quickly (even though my preference seems the opposite of yours).
I don't like to hear certain piano pieces by Ravel played too rapidly because the harmonies seem (to me) to be too rich to be appreciated at breakneck speeds. Yet I had a Hungarian teacher once who wanted me to play him that way (and Bartok himself would have played Ravel that way, too).
I can understand other readers' wanting to pursue a story at higher velocities. But when your interests tend toward admiring how a thing is built as much as (or even more than) its intended function, then reading slowly becomes delicious and revealing. It's like walking in the space beneath the iridescent paper sheet of the ocean.