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Post by OldSamVimes on Dec 14, 2017 9:29:57 GMT
Sometimes someone will lend me a book, one that I'm partly interested in but I'm also perturbed that I have to find time and put some other books on the back burner.
That said, I find I enjoy the challenge of reading a book as fast as I can while still absorbing the main points so I can have a conversation about it.
Somebody lent me 'The Spark' about a mother who had a child with autism.. I did not look forward to it but surprised myself by not only reading the book very quickly, but enjoying it. It's not something I'd consider 'serious reading' or 'fun reading', it was kind of in the middle and most of the books I read can be easily put into one of those two categories.
When I'm speed reading I'm quickly scanning paragraphs for the key sentence(s), noticing the topics in each paragraph and how they're fitting into the narrative, sometimes you can predict the next paragraph from the previous ones and in a book like 'The Spark' there are paragraphs that do not advance the narrative that can be minimally skimmed very rapidly.
I'd like tips from speed readers please.
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Post by OldSamVimes on Dec 16, 2017 11:41:38 GMT
Update.
I returned the book and was able to talk about the major plot points without my co-worker suspecting I skimmed though it in a few hours.
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Post by lunda2222 on Dec 17, 2017 15:11:06 GMT
Use a finger, pencil or pen to follow the text when reading. The eyes have a tendency to dance around the paper. This will prevent that.
You'd be amazed at the speed you can read and you can absorb all the information.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2017 15:22:32 GMT
Use a finger, pencil or pen to follow the text when reading. The eyes have a tendency to dance around the paper. This will prevent that. You'd be amazed at the speed you can read and you can absorb all the information. Only problem with that is I tend to read mostly on the computer or Kindle nowadays.
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