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Old 08-01-2014, 01:11 PM   #52
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Originally Posted by tompe View Post
There ought to be a limit on the speed you can read to experience a book fully.

Harold Bloom is claimed to have read 1000 pages per hour...
This guy was allegedly able to read two opposite pages in an open book simultaneously, one with left eye the other with the right one. He was able to recall numbers, dates and huge number of other things he has read years later.

https://www.wisconsinmedicalsociety....real-rain-man/

There must be a limit. But it is *very. far from what an ordinary person can routinely perform.
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