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Originally Posted by catsknit
You may be right on this. I didn't mean that anyone with enough practice could do it the way I do, only that I do read a lot and it developed over time. My parents were both huge readers as well, and seemed to go through books quickly, but I never had a chance to ask them if they do it like I do, as they passed away before I realized how I do it. My sister hates reading and is very slow; my brother does Ok but is not super fast, but he also has some learning disabilities.
I'm very interested to hear that David does it this way too; now I don't feel like such a weirdo 
And again, I do not think anyone should feel 'less than' if they don't read fast, but certainly practice will make one's innate ability work to its best. The only reason I'm glad to read so fast is that there are so many books in the world that I hope to get a chance to read (my list on goodreads is over 700 now). One of the saddest things to me when my mother was dying was when she handed me a book to return to the library that she had been unable to finish. I knew it was the last book she'd ever read, and she died within 2 weeks. I just kept thinking how awful to know you'd never be able to read any more of all those books still out there!
Karen |
It may well be that reading speed has something to do with genetics. Most things do, after all.
My parents weren't readers. They read newspapers, magazines and stuff, but rarely books. They liked TV more than reading. My maternal grandmother loved to read, though. But she wasn't an extraordinarily fast reader, just average.
Nevertheless my parents bought a lot of books when I was a child, both adult and children's books. Our home was filled with books and I took to them like a duck to water, without any urging on my parents' part. If anything, they worried I read too much, to the exclusion of many other things.
But I have never been an uncannily fast reader either.