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Originally Posted by NatCh
Yeah, that blows me away too, even though I think they noted it was a 'long' weekend -- it takes me several weeks to plow through the entire 10 book series, and I seem to read at a fairly fast clip (read Battlefield Earth's 1066 pages in 6 days, on the first run through). Fortunately for my ego, I've already been disabused of my speed-reading delusions by my wife, who thinks that Jane Eyre is a nice afternoon's diversion. And she's nothing to one of her professors who won't watch the Sense and Sensability screenplay because she can read it faster than the show runs.  |
People that read that fast don't really read, they scan. I know coz I do it too. There is a lot of redundant/useless information in any given book. This happens at several levels:
1) At the sentence level
2) At the paragraph level
3) At the block level (block = length of text dealing with a "single event")
Speed readers tend to develop the knack of not even seeing this redundant information, let alone processing it.