/lit/ - Literature

I can power through shit if it's light reading. If I'm sincerely interested in what the author is saying, you can bet your ass I'm going to be taking frequent breaks to turn my eyes off and just think. You can be broadly read or you can be well read, only very rarely approaching both simultaneously.

>>15437836
It all depends on what you’re reading, if it’s a Stephen king novel then 250 pages an hour is reasonable, but if it’s the work of great minds like Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, then yes, 100 pages per hour is more like it. Anything below this and you should reconsider your life choices.

>>15437852
>of course I read casually at 1200 words per minute

>>15437857
t. brainlet that can't keep up.

>10 pages an hour

>>15437996
based thinker

>>15437836
how bad is 30 an hour when i read actual literature?

>>15438058
Yeah I'm sorry but you're just not going to make it. Your reading speed has a direct correlation with

>>15438058
If you understand it, you're fine.

>>15438058
sry bro the limit is 64 pgs per h to post here. gb2reddit bro sry but no youre illeritate and your not welcome here

>>15437843
fpbp
i do this too

>>15437843
Can this power be learned O Wise one?

>>15437843
YOU MUST READ FAST

>>15437836
depends on how dense it is, for just your average not too complex book I'd say this is pretty good

>>15437836

What is the point of reading and even memorizing if you don't really get it? Accept that some stuff takes time.

>>15438058
Dont listen to the pseauds, theres nothing wrong with this

>>15438817
This, comprehension>>>>>>>>reading speed

If a book is great, why the fuck would you want to rush through it? If I like a book I usually try to embrace every word and get lost in the whole thing a bit. This means that I read like 15-20 pages an hour. Also english is not my first language, but I read most books in english (as it’s easier to pirate e-books in english), probably this too slows me down. Am I doing something wrong?

>>15437836
I've read some books at 100+ pages per hour (relatively uncomplicated fiction). I'm currently reading The Technological Society at around 10 or so pages per hour because it's dense and I have to spend a lot of time rereading or referring to my notes or to earlier sections to make sure I'm understanding everything. The truly retarded thing would be to read a book at a speed that's inappropriate for adequately understanding the material.

Takes me 2 hours to read 50 pages of fagles Iliad.

>>15438869

Wrong with what? I dunno, but I do that too. Sometimes I literally stop reading something to "feel the flavor" a bit more. You can probably start doing that.

usually get ~40 pages an hour, depends on the book though

>>15437836
You comprehend and soak in the book much better when reading at a slower pace. Reading 50 pages while understanding most of it > reading 100 pages just to finish it. The teacher doesn't reward the student who finished the test in 30 minutes with a 70% grade more than the student who finished it in an hour with a 100% grade.

I read at a conversational pace. I don’t see the reason in reading any faster than this.

>>15439192
I agree. It would be like listening to music sped up

the ability of reading interesting text with slow speed during long periods of time >>>>> reading a bunch of stuff in little time

‘Has it never happened, as you were reading a book, that you kept stopping as you read, not because you weren’t interested, but because you were: because of a flow of ideas, stimuli, associations? In a word, haven’t you ever happened to read while looking up from your book?’

>>15438058
It's pretty good and you will probably get faster if you continue to work on your reading skills.

If you don't read 100 pages an hour, it's over. Rope yourself.

>>15437852
>250 an hour

Imagine thinking you can actually do this.

>>15438072
Think that says it all really.

>>15438072
...make what?

>>15438058
It's fine you'll naturally get faster

I have OCD and maybe also ADD.

>Yeah I read really fast haha I read a lot of pages
Let me guess you read books with big font and you are from America

If it's just a narrative I can easily read 40+ pages in an hour. If it's non fiction involving lots of technical jargon and statistical analysis, it can take me an hour to read 10 pages

>>15437836
Haven't read in a 5-6 months and in my high tine can't go more than 25.

>>15437843

i approached your mom simaltaneously

>>15438921
looks like you're an even bigger fagle than he is lmao

>>15439178
what about the retarded kid who didn't even get to start writing before the exam was over?

>>15437836
I read a hundred books an hour.

>>15437836
All I know is that it can take me around 12 hours to finish 900 pages

I’ve been reading Les Mis really fast. Probably 40 pages per hour. Is it supposed to be easy or have I just gotten really good at reading from reading the ancients?

>>15437836
It depends of the size of the book's font, I usually read EPUB with very small fonts. It took me 1 hour to read 30 pages.

>>15439653
Pretty easy imo.

Most books I read don't even have words.

>5 pages per hour
Do you niggers even know how to close read?

>>15439178
This. When I read I like to read at the pace of the scene (if it's a novel) so I can play it out in my head in real time.
Reading quickly takes much of the joy out of reading.

>>15442115
You've probably gotten really bad at reading from reading the ancients. I'm guessing you mean Aristotle, Plato, and such. Reading Greek philosophy, in which you can problem skim at parts, is very different from reading a novel, in which the point of reading is the process rather than the information/thoughts. Read slower or don't read novels at all. You probably won't even enjoy it if you read at that pace.

>>15443570
>You probably won't even enjoy it if you read at that pace.
Oh, is that why I can’t put it down because I’m so engrossed in it?

Second year uni student, reading academic philosophy of science at about 10 pages per hour. Is that normal? Is my brain fucked?