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Originally Posted by fjdk
Maybe I'm misreading the post that kicked of the recent discussion, but it doesn't read to me like it's not particularly promoting speed reading per se, but is suggesting a strategy for how to gain focus when you notice that you're getting distracted while reading at whatever speed you read at.
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The OP's post presumed to tell readers how to read "better", for example they explicitly said " If you find yourself rereading text then you should read faster, not slower." That is, quite frankly, stupid, and being presented as an instruction, something others
should do makes it offensive as well.
If I re-read text, it's either because I want to make sure I understand it thoroughly (science-focused non-fiction or non-L1 fiction/poetry) or, to use a very apt word used by another commenter, to "savor" the words. Like many others, I read light fiction reasonably rapidly, but even VERY light fiction can be so well-written that going back and re-reading passages enhances the experience. Wodehouse is a prime example - I can skim his works at great speed, but doing that skips over so many wonderful gems of phrasing that are the very reason for reading him the first place. The perfect example of why instructing me that "if I find myself rereading text I should read faster not slower" leaves me a VERY long way from gruntled.