/lit/ - Literature

>>9264053
wiggle your eyes a lot to get used to moving them faster

Read two books at once.

>>9264061

Stop reading words out loud in your head.
Use a ruler or something to cover up lines that you've already read so that your eyes don't drift back to them.

>>9264068
it's true

>>9264077
How do I do that?

Jab fish hooks through your eyes (it's nowhere near as painful as you'd think, no fucking nerves at all in there, and they heal super quick) and hang bricks off them to weight your eyes down. Then read. Do this for a few months, and once you take your weights off you'll read like greased pig shit.

>>9264077
>Stop reading words out loud in your head.
bad advice if you read stylized prose at all
destroys half of the point of poetry if you read it

>>9264053
reading slow is good if you aren't struggling to understand.

>>9264085
You skim and have a 15% retention rate. It's big here.

>>9264097
>destroys half of the point of poetry if you read it
He wasn't asking how to read poetry better he was asking how to read faster.

>>9264110
I was making him aware of the consequences of that particular technique.

How do I interpret jargon clearly enough to reform it in my own terms thus understand it?

Also how do I stop my eyes from reading rhythmically and snapping around the page causing my brain to bleed?

>>9264148
I should make clear that this is only a struggle with some books. Pic related. I can only hope for a gratifying end.

>Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader. And I shall tell you why. When we read a book for the first time the very process of laboriously moving our eyes from left to right, line after line, page after page, this complicated physical work upon the book, the very process of learning in terms of space and time what the book is about, this stands between us and artistic appreciation.

If I had previously skimmed without stopping for clarification, would it be possible to reasonably comprehend your average philosophy text at ~20-25 pages an hour, taking time to annotate and ponder? This is assuming good concentration and no distractions.

>>9264232
A couple pages an hour unless it was written recently

>>9264098
underrated

>>9264053
Read in the bullet train.

>>9264196
This. Practice makes perfect.