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I totally ignore all vowel lengths completely when reading aloud to myself. When learning a new word, I consult a macronized dictionary and according to the long vowels and heavy syllables assign stress markers with apices. An example:

offerō, offerre, obtulī, oblātus

óffero, offérre, óbtuli, oblátus

I just stress where the apices are and ignore anything else. As an English speaker who can’t really differentiate the lengths, my priority is to stress the word correctly when reading to myself. The word stress is important because of you wouldn’t stress the word “elevator” as elevaTOR. I’d hate to be saying HAbere instead of the correct haBEre…