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>holy shit anon you've been reading for 40 minutes and you've barely made it past 10 pages
>haha why have you been reading that sentence 10 times over again it's not that complicated
>you seriously forget what that word means? You've looked it up in the dictionary 5 times already you should remember what it means
>what do you mean you forget who this character is? You remember his name, right? so you should fucking remember who he is in the story, idiot

>> No.11400455

>tfw read 40 pages an hour
I still don't feel like I'm reading quickly enough to justify the time I spend reading.

>> No.11400478

delet

>> No.11400511

>>11400478

>/lit/ said this was an entry-level book. Even the retards at /lit/ understand this book better than your retarded brain dead ass

>> No.11400512

don't listen that faggots anon. I believe in you.

>> No.11400516

>>11400431
>looking up a word 5 times
What

>> No.11401080

>>11400431
Wife’s reaction to me reading IJ

>> No.11401135

>>11400431
I-I only look words twice

>> No.11401337
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11401337

30-40 pages a hour is reasonable, 50-60 is good if your a advanced reader. 70-100 is just skimming over pages or speed reading.

A 'page' for me is around one full page of text in a journal article.

>> No.11401369

>>11401337
then how is 25 pages an hour (140 wpm)?
Is there any hope for me?

>> No.11401414

>>11401337
30 pages an hour is too fast. You need to be actively thinking about the text as you read. 15 pages an hour is perfect for comprehending and properly absorbing the text

>> No.11401501

its not a race people. if youre reading to make others think better of you its time to stop and just go back to anima and vidya.

>> No.11401600

>>11401414
just because you cant think about the text as you read at 30 pages an hour doesnt mean that others cant either

>> No.11401688

>>11401501
This. How can you appreciate the beauty of good writing and narrative structure if you're skimming over the text? Literature isn't the fucking newspaper.

>> No.11401743

>>11401337
I do about 20 to 30 an hour. Any more and you're not reading the book, you're just reading words.

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>>11401688
>>11401743

No Anon, you dont understand! You can’t possibly fathom the plethora of information and /lit/ status one can receive trough the art of exhilarating speed-reading! the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing automobile with its bonnet adorned with great tubes like serpents with explosive breath ... a roaring motor car which seems to run on machine-gun fire and the reading of 102 words a second is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace. Reading to understand and enjoy/savor the text, is for brainlets, the true purpose of reading is the improvement of the readers speed - the faster: THE HIGHER IQ

>> No.11401913

>>11400431
it hurts
does it get better with time /lit/?

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11401952

>tfw you don't subvocalize so you read like an absolute madman

>> No.11401953

i forgot just how mad subbies get about their low bandwidth brains.

>> No.11401966

>>11400431
What are you reading? Do you read in a foreign language?

>> No.11401987

o yeah i have to prove to online anonymous people that i read reaaalllyy fast lol these fucking plens xd

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>>11401888
You lowered the read-rate of that post on purpose you fag.

>> No.11402129

>>11400431
>reading for 40 minutes and you've barely made it past 10 pages
Gonna ballpark this and say you dove into some modern era philosophy book, or some heavy reading material associated with pre-condition philosopher works?

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>>11400431
>>what do you mean you forget who this character is? You remember his name, right? so you should fucking remember who he is in the story, idiot

>> No.11402625

>>11402147
>discussing book
>"and then whatsisface..."
>who?
Fuuuuuk youuu

>> No.11402652

>>11401952
>doesn't actually enjoy the prose
Lel what a brainlet

>> No.11402703

>paying attention to how many pages you read in an hour
Do people actually do this?

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>>11402129

Happens any time one tries to read some ''new'' book within science or philosophy, because then you’re not just reading the aforementioned book, but the dictionary too to understand what your reading. But hey, expanding your vocabulary can be fun – even if your never gone use those words because you aren’t a 20th century French post-modern philosopher with a hard on for Tautology.

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>>11402966
>what your reading

>> No.11402998

Measuring in pages is a flawed system, because the content of a book, as way as the way it's edited, plays a big part on how long it will take you to finish.
Reading 40 pages of Don Quixote in a couple of hours is not the same as reading the same number of pages in 1984 in the same amount of time, for example.
You shouldn't be bothered by how long it takes you to finish one book as long as you finish it, accounting on the fact that you want to finish it.

>> No.11403011

>caring about what other people think
Sad

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>>11402980

E-english is not my native language...