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Originally Posted by rkomar
I'm not a fast reader, and I subvocalise. There are works where the sound of the words in my head brings me great pleasure. Doesn't removing subvocalisation reduce that pleasure?
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You can vary your speed. For example, I read poetry out loud to hear the sounds of the words as this is an integral part of a poem. But action novels demand to be read at a fast pace and subvocalisation gets in the way. Many novels are not poems in prose, so subvocalisation is unnecessary and can be dispensed with for the sake of speed, but if a passage appears which has a more lyrical style, it's easy to slow down to appreciate the language, its rhythm and 'poetry'.
Speed reading is a great skill to learn, but it isn't compulsory to use it all the time.
What many others have described as speed reading is actually skimming, or previewing, which is usually something done with a non-fiction book, especially one being used for study.