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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
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.
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Oh I realize that a lot of the speed reading is done that way, but when you're talking about literature professors, they tend not to read their
core material that way, unless they're refreshing their memories for a class discussion, etc. The lady who does
Sense and Sensibility in less time than the screen play run, really does
read it that fast. But then again, she's a particularly super-human example of the breed.
