/lit/ - Literature

Despite reading countless treatises of philosophy, psychology, fiction, and self-help /lit/ is still seemingly a congregation of disenchanted men. Are you incels applying what you read or are you the infamous "reader" Wojak, the one who reads for epistemic reasons in order to seem pseudo intellectual all the while not actually absorbing any knowledge ; the type that has zero respect for the work they're reading, rather using it as an extension of their ego. I use to be that but now I take what I read and put it into action, it seems like no one here does.

How the fuck do you read so many books

While also improving comprehension...
I want to hear it from people who actually study humanities and who needed to improve for their studies.
I don't know if the stuff I read online is BS or not. Did you just naturally start improving as your studies went on, or did you follow a plan? If you followed a plan, what was your plan?
t. learned to focus for long periods of time but still slow

I'm a slow reader. Whenever reading fiction or dialogues, I like to visualize it all and "live it". However that means I'm slow as shit and I never get to the end.

How fast are you? It takes me 3 minutes per page on the half A4 book. Should I work on it? Stop subvocalizing or something?

I wouldn't want to speed read, but when I hear that my friend reads 4 books a month, I feel I can and should do much better.

I've recently got back in to reading and on average it takes me (depending on interest in the material) about 4/5 days to finish a ~300p. book.
Is this a normal speed?
>Book you last read and how many pages it was.
>How long it took you to finish.

The person with the quickest reading wins a free copy of The 12 Rules of Life.

What's the ideal PPM (pages per minute) you should have while reading a book?
Right now my PPM is round 0.6 and I feel like that's fast enough.

Is speed reading a bad thing?

Does it diminishes the joy and pleasure you get out of reading a good book, or do you learn to enjoy reading at a fast pace?

Hi /lit/ are there any tips or tricks to reading faster ? I am kind of a slow reader and I really want to step it up. How do I improve apart from simply reading more ?

Friendly reminder that speed reading is a meme.

How can I go about learning to speed read? I don't necessary have to achieve 1kw/m but I'd definitely like to improve my reading speed since it would be a useful skill.

Up until I was 14 I read unceasingly, I barely went out and whatnot. Naturally, became able to read extremely fast during that time; but it all ended mid-highschool.

Jump to now, the present. I'm 22 and while my reading speed is faster than average, I've found out that when I smoke marihuana and get only slightly high, I'm able to read about 35-60% faster with the same amount of recollection; and can push it even further, sacrificing some text comprehension.

Anyone else with a similar experience?

which one can I read through most quickly?

—RC Lewontin, Biology as Ideology
—George Orwell, Animal Farm
—Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
—Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
—Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness
—Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
—Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto