I had at least 2 books on my person at all times just in case I finished one and needed another. I lined my bed with books and slept on top of them. At this level of excessive, near-constant reading I remember having a different experience of reading than I can achieve now. 2/
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I wouldn't read words, I'd read phrases as solid chunks, and often treat full paragraphs similarly to the way I read sentences now; some part of my brain skimmed *in addition* to reading; it sort of told my eyes where to jump to catch the important words so I could come out 3/
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of the paragraph with good comprehension. And my comprehension was good - reading tests clocked me at around 800 wpm with decent retention. What interests me about this is that I think I was doing some sort of data compression? Like, I read fewer total words than were there. 4/
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I don't know how my brain managed to figure out which words to read and which ones not to at that significant a scale. I can't do this anymore; my reading speed has dropped a few hundred wpm. There's still some chunking, but it doesn't feel the same.
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Aaaaaa I had the single-sitting sword of truth book thing when the new ones came out in my teens too. Tried to re-read them recently and couldn't, just felt like badly reheated libertarian guff.
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It doesn't really get intolerably preachy until closer to the end of the series.
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When i was in the Marines on the carrier the dragonlance and other tsr books were comming out. 400 page books on average would read them on our 4 hour rotation. Then found Anne Rice chronicles devoured them. So many good stories by great writers
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Among other books, I read the entire Redwall series (some 17 or 18 novels at that time) & Lord of the Rings (including The Hobbit) in one quarter in 6th grade. I had thousands of Reading Counts points. I can still chunk through a good book, but it’s harder to do (& find time).
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Wonder how this would affect your reading speed.https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/spreed-speed-read-the-web/ipikiaejjblmdopojhpejjmbedhlibno?hl=en …
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I also read in the shower, also while walking to and from school. My feet learned the way so I hardly had to look up from my book. Did your parents allow you to read fantasy books? I had to hide mine under proper books or read them at night after my parents went to bed
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