/lit/ - Literature

>>23405013
>If you take 1 month to read a book, but remember basically everything about it, you're infinitely smarter than a person who reads 4 in the same amount of time and remembers nothing.
Is memory all there is to intelligence? I can write a short essay on the book I was reading I'm, hell I recount my 25 mile commute. Yet I don't think I'm all that smart, more of a good listener type
>>23404496
>60*3 = 180
>100/180 = 5/9
>rounding down to 5/10 cause I don't care = .5
That's a page every two minute. That's not bad at all.
The trick is really keeping a good pace and reading diverse stuff. Also your book might be thick, meaning that a page there is not equal to a page of a pocket bible like picrel in terms of page count