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Speed reading is a funny thing. I've never consciously tried to develop that skill and I think I probably read quite slowly (never actually measured). But it can depend on what I'm reading.
I find with technical reading, I can often skim or jump blocks of text. As my familiarity with a topic grows, I can often tell what a paragraph reads before I get to it. Since most professions these days are engineered so that you have more work that you can possibly complete in the allotted time, this abbreviated approach to reading documents becomes a survival mechanism.
However, with fiction I tend not to use these approaches often. If I'm doing it it's either a sign that I'm not enjoying that section of the book very much or that I'm trying to get to the end of a chapter in a big hurry for some reason.
I wonder if I'll ever bother testing myself or become interested in enhancing reading speed.
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