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Alright /lit/, I like books but I'm a slow reader. How do I get faster? Is there a speed limit? How much pages should I aim to read per day?

>> No.11636855

>>11636769
Read in the pace you find enjoyable. The important thing is that you read a lot.

>> No.11636868

>>11636855
Not OP, but I read slowly more because my ADHD tampers with my ability to the read past 10 pages in a single sitting (I know it's pathetic) and often causes a kind of mental exhaustion that limits me from forcing myself to read past that default number of 10 pages per day

>> No.11637015

>>11636868
OP here, this happens to me too. What do I do? I'll never get through my books at this rate

>> No.11637200

instead of worrying about page counts, try thinking in terms of time spent reading instead. For instance, I usually try to read for at least an hour every day, you don't have to start at an hour, you can make it something like 30 or even 15 minutes but the point is that you have to force yourself to read for that amount of time every day. After a while you'll be able to increase the time you spend reading and eventually you'll find that you actually don't even have to force yourself to read and at that point you can go by chapters or pages or whatever you want. The trick is to get yourself used to reading first. It's okay if you're a slow reader, one of the best ways to improve your speed is just by reading, sure there are courses you could take online in speed reading and all that kinda crap but honestly you should be more concerned with the way you spend your time than with how fast you read. If you can learn to spend a lot of time reading per day (and enjoy it) then the speed will soon follow.

>> No.11637214

my pace is about 30 pages per hour. Is that too slow?

>> No.11637330

>>11637214
Kinda. Strive for 50/h

>> No.11637348

>>11637330
Fuck
Mine is 25-35.

>> No.11637462

>>11637348
don't worry anon. I can barely manage 10/20 an hour.
Just kill me desu

>> No.11637467

>>11637462
Are you the Moby Dick anon with 6 pages/hour? Just out of curiosity.
I wish I could give you some of my reading speed especially since you read more than I do (presumably).

>> No.11637484

>>11637015
You keep reading in spite of yourself. Perhaps when you read enough to make the events of a novel a more perpetual, cohesive narrative (reading slowly really fragments the narrative experience), you will come to realize reading more is better than reading less even if the idea of it seems displeasurable. At least that's how I did it.

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>>11637467
>tfw when you get only 0.5 pages / hour

>> No.11637527

>>11636769
Speed reading is a spook; practice more and gradually increase reading difficulty.

>> No.11637534

>>11637527
My reading speed varries by book, but 40/hr of foreign language books and 60/hr for english is my norm

>> No.11637672

Increasing reading speed decreases comprehension so this is mostly pointless.

>> No.11637702
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>1 page every 1.5 min
>30 pages an hour

>> No.11637797

>>11637467
No but my speed with Moby Dick was great. I would read for like 4 or 5 hours and have on average 50 pages read. I think once I hit 80 in a single day. This was of course over Christmas so I had more time but I haven't hit a over 25 since. I chalk it up to no time but still, feels bad.
Really though reading slowly isn't as bad as people make it out to be. You get to appreciate the prose more and you'll remember more for sure. A good way to speed things up is to get a pointer of some kind like the end of a pencil and train your eyes on the words under it. The words will flow better and at least for me it sped things up considerably.

>> No.11637814

>>11637797
>words under it
The words it's under. Sorry.