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Originally Posted by latepaul
However I am sceptical. Plus even if it works the experience of reading becomes less pleasurable.
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That's the crux, of course. These days I read for pleasure.
However, like you, I wish my retention rate especially for non-fiction was better. I've told myself that instead of bombing through the books I need to make a conscious effort to
slow down, as when I read a text in college. Carry on a conversation with myself and the author, as it were, while I'm reading.
Screen shots of
Left Hand of Darkness duly appreciated; I wouldn't have wanted anything to slow me down with that one! But since it's the
book the book club is currently discussing, I'll note that that's one of the things I enjoy about the book club. I do slow down and take notes to facilitate participation in the discussion and I'm more prone to think about and consider the book when I'm not reading it, than the other books I read.