read books faster

[OGLemon]

big up the illeterare crew

[ehbes]

Agent when was the last time you read a book?

[thatjsound]

My eyes are burning, fuck you






In the best way possible

[cyclopian]

I skimmed over this thread in a matter of seconds, and i learned nothing.

Speed reading is the best.

[magma]

Epileptics to the front library!

[ezza]

Agent when was the last time you read a book?

ive honestly never finished a book

except maybe at school but i cant remember

i just read web articles sometimes

readings long if u think about it

[m8son666]

hahaha my brother had never finished a book until he did an english a level

[ultraspatial]

i love this shit. got a pretty low attention span so i get bored easily when reading regardless of what it is
and yeah, i just scan pages tbh

[ezza]

hahaha my brother had never finished a book until he did an english a level

yeah i mean it sounds dumb, but if u think about it most of what we do is just read nowadays - forums, tutorials, magazines and shit

dont get how reading a novel means your more intelligent all of sudden

[Pedro Sánchez]

dont get how reading a novel means your more intelligent all of sudden

Yes you do...not all of a sudden, if a novel is well written it will draw all manner of facts and interesting ideas for you to digest.

[wub]

hahaha my brother had never finished a book until he did an english a level

yeah i mean it sounds dumb, but if u think about it most of what we do is just read nowadays - forums, tutorials, magazines and shit

dont get how reading a novel means your more intelligent all of sudden

You're*

[ezza]

i know the difference between the urs i just cba lol

[m8son666]

Novels help you to see things from a point of view that's not yours which is always constructive. I rate reading cos it gives me a break from the constant fuckry that is my own thoughts, it's a bit like meditating imo.

[ezza]

aint a novel fictitious?

hows that seeing things from a diff point of view

[ezza]

but yeah, ive been meaning to get into it tbf

ill give it a go one of these days

its not like i cant read haha

[m8son666]

aint a novel fictitious?

hows that seeing things from a diff point of view

Because you're essentially living the life of the characters in your mind, seeing what someone who is not yourself may be going through/experiencing.

[wub]

It's true, whenever I read a Jack Reacher novel it quells my desire to go and mug strangers for no good reason.

[m8son666]

I often enjoy living the life of a serial killer on the verge of psychosis until i realise i am not reading

[kay]

Actually, I remember researching this for my degree and there's a fair bit of evidence humans don't really need to focus on one word at a time and can in fact just look at chunks of text to acquire the information, even several lines or a page.

Do you 'hear' the word when you read it? That's a byproduct of teaching children to read by associating speech with corresponding graphic representations. You can actually stop hearing the sounds mentally and apparently your reading speed increases because you're not then wasting time listening to the words as well.

I read in blocks quite often when I'm skim reading, especially when I know what I'm already reading isn't particularly interesting. Kinda have to do that as my job is pretty much 75% reading. I think of it as taking snapshots of the particular part of the sentence I'm looking at. Which is probably also why I found the app in the OP so painful because it was making you read fast but one word at a time.

When I read novels and stuff I'm focusing/paying attention to I'll read and sound words in my hear simultaneously. When reading fast, it goes quiet in my head.

[hugh]

hahaha my brother had never finished a book until he did an english a level

yeah i mean it sounds dumb, but if u think about it most of what we do is just read nowadays - forums, tutorials, magazines and shit

dont get how reading a novel means your more intelligent all of sudden

I don't think you could do anything to become intelligent all of a sudden tbf