How do you read faster?
>>25171133Read more pages more often. You will get faster with practice. Never skim fiction, almost always skim non-fiction unless it's philosophy then follow it extra carefully
You plainly just wanna race through books to say you read them, so look up Teddy Roosevelt's method. He inhaled books by the yard; whether he retained anything is open to doubt. But every year, like Obama after him, he noted down the books he read in his inappreciable spare time and it was quite an expansive list. Should serve your purposes.
>>25171133its not a competition bludopen a sprite, sit on the porch, and relax
>>25171133you should be reading slower
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>>25171133>How do you read faster?Why?Would you listen to music at 2x speed?
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>>25171172Yes, it's called nightcore
>>25171133Most prose is dogshit. Read like an editor, and you'll be redacting in real time, until you have syntactic chunks at a glance while scanning. And eschew subvocalizaiton.
>>25171186i feel this way too sometimes but I've had to stop myself from thinking this because it's the type of mindset that makes me stop finding new things to like. There's a lot of shit I love that other people think is garbage and vice versa. I'd be better off if I could enjoy absolutely everything the way somebody who loves it does, impossible but may as well try
1600 pages a day. Keep in mind, that is 20 hrs of reading for me
Read more. That's all there is to it.
>>25171184At most it's like 1.25, 1.33x tops, otherwise it sounds like shit.For fast reading if you really want, turn on audio speed to like 4x, turn on CC, and practice keeping up. Eventually turn down the sound and modulate the speed to improve comprehension.Next, focus on avoiding subvocalization where you sound out the word in your head; semiotically this means to identify the meaning of the word (signified) while ignoring the actual spelling and phonetics of the word itself (signifier); this saves a lot of cognitive processing while reading.Finally focus on chunking and reading sets of data so that you can grab whole sentences and eventually paragraphs without having to parse out each. single. word. You can see a forest without having to count every tree in it (or see a pile of sand without the grains (or some other analogy that mechanically works for you)).On another level, you start to developing reading inference which will allow you to reliably infer common patterns in text rather than having to process those textual patterns each time you come across them; like gramatical & idomatic memes.
>>25171206Oh, I recommend doing this with audio books that have closed captioning on Youtube.it's good & accessible audio-visual practice with all the material on there.
>>25171133>and other things that only impress Indians
>>25171206>On another level, you start to developing reading inference which will allow you to reliably infer common patterns in text rather than having to process those textual patterns each time you come across them; like gramatical & idomatic memes.the downside is that spelling and grammar take a huge editorial bath and your patience runs thin with humanity as everything comes off as slow (people talk and read and text too slow).hence the reticence many have toward advocating speed reading.
>>25171232you start "speedrunning" books & movies...
