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Originally Posted by JSWolf
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Interesting read.
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Originally Posted by DNSB
Yes. That's one reason as to why I suffer from the lack of a TBR.
I have fond memories of a reading speed test in high school where they ran me through several tests before they decided that I was not somehow cheating. How you can cheat on a test where you read a couple of pages and then answer questions about what was on those pages without having prior access to study the test pages escapes me.
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That's remarkable. Did you train yourself to read at these speeds? Or did it come naturally? That's a valuable skill to have. I'm a relatively quick reader when I want to be and I'm focused, but nothing like those speeds. I like to read that fast when reading informational stuff that I don't get great pleasure from reading, but am motivated to know the content. More literary writing, even if it's non-fiction, I've actually slowed down some over the years on purpose.
I recall years ago that there were books and people on TV touting speed reading techniques. I read some stuff about it. Scanning large chunks of text without speaking the words in one's head was one of the techniques. The claim was that retention was better, too. I played around with it some, but didn't stick with it.