Tfw read 20 pages an hour

Plan for Chaos. Lost John Wyndham book. He's the guy who wrote the books Village of the Damned and Day of The Triffids and Chocky are based on.

I don't understand, I thought this was how everyone read. I mean I can skim the page but I cannot for the life of me actually absorb any of it without reading at the same speed as I would normally speak

Try this.
Find a pdf of some book and load it into the PocketBook Reader app.
Then listen to google-tts read it to you at max speed. (Select any amount of text and press the speaker button. It'll keep reading on its own.)
Once you've gotten used to this, you should, at various points, find the page you're listening to and follow along with your eyes.

After subjecting yourself to this for an hour, turn off the text-to-speech and notice that you're way faster.

I recommend doing this with a non-fiction book and also turning up the pitch on the voice because it's easier to parse I feel.

>every book is by alvin and the chipmunks

wew

I read Moby-dick, a tale of two cities and blood meridian all at around 10 pages an hour.
I read lotr at 15-18 pages an hour.
I'm 21 and English is my first and only language, I have been reading my entire life.

That just means your enjoyment of books lasts longer.

>tfw you read your native language slower than English at this point
Anglo-sama you b-baka

I use novels as benchmarks because they're easier to quantify as the difficulty is sort of consistent throughout. With non fiction texts I'm even slower, around 5-6 pages an hour sometimes even 3, it varies sure but its never over 10.
After 2 hours its like my mind can't comprehend more than 1 sentence a minute, like I'll read and comprehend one sentence in a few seconds and then the rest of the minute my mind will be wandering between a hundred different things. A walk or run usually gets the words to mean something to me again and the text starts to flow well but the initial boost wears off after an hour and I'm back to struggling and regressing half a dozen times every other sentence.

Come on. How do you expect to read challenging non-fiction without taking a break every now and then to digest the information? Also you might have ADHD.

>a break
define a break
I essentially have over a hundred little breaks every hour when my mind goes on a walk between every other sentence, and then a massive break of half an hour where I just pace back and forth and stare aimlessly. It makes no difference how long the break is, or how many of them I have, the fact is when it comes time to read I usually can't read over 12 pages an hour in my native language and its mainly down to my train of thought being constantly broken and I end up staring into space.

I'm reading the wealth of nations. 1-2 pages front and back an hour.

I'm coming to the conclusion lately that I might not be conscious; I just feel like I am.

does anyone else absolutely refuse to move on until you've understood a paragraph or page in a book?
I once tried to just pick up sickness unto death with no real grasp on philosophy, and spent around three hours trying to figure out what the fuck he was talking about the very first paragraph.

For me at that point I determine I'm not ready for those kinda books yet and put it on the back burner

I can read brothers K and understand it but am still not ready for major philosophical books because of the different mind sets needed

Last summer I was hanging out with a girl who bullied me for reading Plato about 20 pages an hour while she was skimming some self insert romance shit.

I do this too. It's infuriating and hilarious to spend five minutes re-reading the same paragraph to try and understand it, only to read the next paragraph and it explains it in detail.

>have only read 67 pages today
>in like 5 different sittings

if i am alone, no pressure, enjoying a book then 40-50 pages an hour with ease, 70 if skimming but i only do this for studying because there’s no need to absorb textbook information

if im dealing with anxiety or am tired then 30-40 pages an hour. for phil its 10-20 but i like to meditate on the ideas im engaged with and enjoy having mental back and forths with myself over whether the author is retarded or thinking along similar lines to me. don’t feel too bad. i read Heidegger at about 10 pages an hour because of the aforementioned tendency i have

that’s the correct way to read though, you should feel good that you take your time to understand

if it's nonfiction or poetry it's supposed to be like that, if you are doing that with fiction shit dude step up

i was doing infinite jest at 10 pages an hour max, like cutting through the ho chi minh trail with a butter knife.

I'm unironically the same at least we are actually reading

I definitely do this, and even when I do feel like I probably understand it I second guess myself and reread it a bunch anyway. If there's any question, I hone in on the shit like an autist and look up words even though I know them and shit just in case. Often they'll have different, archaic meanings I wasn't aware of though, so it's kinda cool. This really only happens with more difficult works though, stuff like Dosto doesn't usually necessitate too much autism.

he does the police in different voices, don't ya sloppy?

>>> tfw you fake being Med smart.

>Reading is about how fast you can get through the book. I also watch movies at 4x speed.

Seriously i think most people ITT are normal maybe a little ADD

>reading a book so simple you can do 20 pages an hour
People used to spend months with books. They would read them many times and annotate them. The slower you read the more you're going to take in, unless you're reading something for brainlets.

>Subvocalizing is always a detriment to one's understanding

what if you read slowly and forget everything and don't take notes and are also addicted to attention and stimulus from flashing blue screens???

Why spend that long on Blood Meridian?

meditate
try taking L-Theanine and caffiene, u can get it at any pharmacy
Eventually you'll be used to focus and wont need it as much

>they don't put books under their pillows so they dream them over night in glorious 4 D
suckers

If you read

wew after reading this thread i feel like i should take more time reading each page

hi moby dick user! glad to see you finally ended it

because I can't read faster than that

read for more than an hour
I start out with like 3 pages first 10-15 min, then 8-12 pages the next 30-40 min, then I go up and down the following hour at like 20-30 pages. One page can be a min, the next page 3; cause of a drop of focus, or misreading some lines, or "dreaming away" thinking about something else so I have to reread a whole paragraph. I also find that it's much more fun reading a bit slower, try harding to read fast feels uncomfortable, sometimes.

When I read some sub 300-page fiction or genre fiction I usually plow through them, simpler language—familiar lines.

yes. this is how you're meant to read. only brainlets speed read. of course if you're legitimately stuck, move on, allow yourself a little confusion.

>allow yourself a little confusion

house of leaves flashbacks

Depending on the book, this is sometimes the best I do too. I could read 100 pages of Cormac McCarthy in under two hours, but reading the political digressions in Les Miserables slows me down to 10 pages an hour sometimes. It's not that I don't enjoy it as much, but sometimes some passages just require more attention.

I know this feel but with Philip K Dick

it really slows me down when he's talking about half-lifes, andys, transmitters, cables, flimflams, wabbadangdangs, and other terms he probably coined or popularised in his distinctive PKD way. like, it's great and all but fuck i need to go slow with his books or i'm sure i'm missing what a passage means

Question to all the anons who keep rereading the same couple of pages or paragraphs until they understand them. How do you decide that you've got it and didnt miss anything. this is regarding fiction

This thread makes me feel more okay with being a slow reading brainlet. Thanks, bros.

>94
is your native language hard or something. are you hungarian mr user

Put down ALL technology, its been proven that overstimulation will greatly reduce you attention span. The fast pace of Veeky Forums combined with the image based communication of the meme is a great danger if overconsumed. Stop ALL pornography because this affects your ability to remember while also causing massive dopamine production. Seriously, put down the computer for as long as possible to reset your mind. The. regulate your consumption to a reasonable amount.

>tfw read every word in my head
>often have to reread lines over and over because of tourettes

surprising I finish any books at all