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Originally Posted by tompe
I have friends who read much faster than me and and experience the book in some sense better than me. The only thing I talked is that I believe there is a limit on how fast you can read and still experience the book as well or better then good/competent readers that read it more slowly.
But I am not saying that experience better in that sense is in some universal way better. That all depends on what goal you have and so on. Or depend on what moral system you are using and what that say.
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I think all good books deserve reflection and consideration at the time of reading. Some people can read faster than others, and still reflect and consider as much, just at at quicker pace. I believe the more you reflect and consider the more you WILL get out of a book. I think this is undeniable. It depends how you read as well. I love to read in bed, and do so almost everyday. I have got these new beautiful mattresses
from this site here, so snuggling onto one and reading is always tempting. However when I read at a table with a hardback, I find my concentration is that much higher, and I get alot more from the experience.
I think with mulitple tabs, and twitter, and BuzzFeed and things like this, we are so used to skim-reading, to moving on to the next article, taking just the bare bones of what we can from a text as fast as possible. I think we can get into this habit, and this can damage the experience when we read literature.