/lit/ - Literature

Good for you, OP. I was really into speed-reading last year, but eventually got tired of it.

To people who think it's equal to skimming: If you do it right, you don't sacrifice comprehension because of a number of different tricks. For example, you avoid internal vocalization, you take advantage of your peripheral vision, and you teach yourself how to comprehend sentences faster by focusing on groups of words of rather than one word at a time.

It takes a lot of practice to get to the comprehension stage; plus, it's exhausting. I don't do it so much anymore because of that. To me, it's more rewarding an experience to digest a book slowly and think about how the writer writes rather than just what he writes.