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I'm planning on reading through the canon but it would take me 15 years at my pace. How do I read faster?

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>>20656259
Only read words with capital letters and speedread through everything else. Your eyes will instinctively over time process the words you speedread through like logograms.

Books you genuinely enjoy and agree with the author on will be more successful with this method than the books you don't like.

>> No.20656398

>>20656259
paint every A with red don't ask why it works

>> No.20656415

>>20656259
If you are reading classics, you can probably find free audiobooks online. Try listening to the audiobook at 2x, even 3x speed while you scan your eyes over the letters in the physical book. The audio will sound like "habfhdbfabsdufb", but your brain comprehends it if you also have visual stimulus.

Another technique is, if you have a Kindle, use the "Word Runner" tool. This flashes all the words in the middle of the screen; you stare at that spot and your brain reads instinctively. This is because you only need to really focus on the first and last letters of a word to read it. You can read up to 900 words per minute using WR.

>> No.20656913

>>20656259
I don't understand why this is a problem. I am in no rush to read as many books as possible before my expiration. I am having more success dealing with fewer books in greater detail, than powering through dozens upon dozens of books.
A girl-friend of mine boasts about reading like 2 YA books per week. I could read that fast if I was prepared to sacrifice like 50% of my retention. Instead, since January, I'm still on my first nonfiction read but I have also completed a large part of the Bible, if that counts.

>> No.20656923

>Get told it's better not to read fast cause my retention will be shit
>Read slow but my retention is also shit
Just can't fucking win

>> No.20656977

>>20656923
The most effective way is rereading. I will read a chapter at home, in halves, and then read it again on my kindle before bed or whatever. This is only important for nonfiction.

>> No.20656999

bionic reading

>> No.20657002

Reading is like sex; doing it too quickly just means you're bad at it

>> No.20657493

>>20656977
>This is only important for nonfiction.
opinion discarded

>> No.20657568

>>20656259
Adapt daily reading minimum. You can exceed it but you can't go below it. At 20 pages per day you'll go through 7300 pages a year minimum, that's War and Peace times 8 and a bit and that's maybe 40 minutes per day.

>> No.20657642

>>20656259
j-jack black?