/lit/ - Literature

Do you read one book at a time, or switch books between readings?

>>11882925
This is the secret, once you're comfortable with two you can even up to three or four books at once, the sky is the limit.

/lit/ BTFO

How come one black guy can do what 98% of /lit/ can't?

>>11704593
>>11704669
>subvocalizing the internet
I hope you guys are kidding. How slowly do you read 4chan posts?

>>11704669
No, I read it much too fast to assign a voice to it.

>>11704702
I seriously have no idea why people have such a hard time believing you can easily read without subvocalization. I was an avid reader in childhood and only started subvocalizing at some point in my early teens, on purpose.
I'm not saying you shouldn't subvocalize at all. I can't help but subvocalize when reading slowly, or when writing this post. I think it's actually an automatic But my eyes effortlessly fly over easy texts, such as the vast majority of the posts here on 4chan, and I don't think my "comprehension" suffers one bit.
What some deluded anons call "speed reading" in this thread, is actually just reading, quickly.
I remember people not believing me as a kid when I "showed" them how fast I could read. Maybe this is the same problem. Most people are simply slower at parsing text and their mistake is not believing anyone else can be better at it.

>>11704982
Stop the memes

>>11704763
>better retention
I find this to be the exact opposite of the truth, though I'm sure reading aloud has many other benefits. Maybe the retention comes with practice, I don't know, but I find all my concentration goes to the sound and flow rather than the meaning.
This is a problem with subvocalization as well, to a much lesser extent.

How do I stop the problem of reading multiple books at once? My backlog is so big and I often get distracted by the thought of reading something new.

*blocks your path*

What's the correct way of reading in public?

>>10974604
>Post-modernism says "all of this is stupid"
except actual post-modernists never do that, they all have very clear grand-narratives and the "no-grand-narratives" is just a facade used only in 1 direction, but never in the other. If you check in which direction they aren't deconstructing it becomes clear where they actually stand, it's transparent as water

>>10957201
>>Everytime I read in public I become a target I feel like.
>not dual wielding books in public for extra-intimidation of plebs
never gonna make it

>>10861866

>>10238001
>Screenlets can't read two at once.
When will they learn?

Losers with multiple kindles need not apply.

>>10177768
I know.

Of course

I really liked Troy from Dan Simmons. Is there anything else as crazy as this? I know about The Quantum Thief but the 3rd book isn't available in russian so it's incomplete experience.

What advanced reading techniques are you aware of? Pic related

*blocks your path*

For as a swelling is produced in the flesh by a heavy blow, so in softest souls the inclination to hurt others gets its greater strength from greater weakness. Thus women are more prone to anger than men, and people ill than people well, and old men than men in their prime, and the unfortunate than the prosperous; the miser is most prone to anger with his steward, the glutton with his cook, the jealous man with his wife, the vain man when he is spoken ill of.

*blocks your path*

What do you do /lit/?

As she bent over to pick up her panties and made those rolls on her stomach that all girls like to hide, she paused and looked up awkwardly at me and straightened up. Blushing, her eyes darted at the mirror and held her arms. she looked at my hard-on and bit her lips. It was a show. I've heard about her and her act, but I enjoyed it anyway. She took off her dangling bra and crawled on top of me.

>>9158841
>it got rained on
you are!

>>9135553
Because reading makes you smart.