What are some tips to read faster?! To get more books read.
What are some tips to read faster?! To get more books read.
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What are some tips to read faster?! To get more books read.
Audiobooks?
Ignore the rest of your life. Food, water, work? Overrated. ?
I don’t really think there’s a way to actually make yourself read faster, everyone reads at their own pace! You can’t force yourself to do it faster haha
I personally read around 15 books a month and 150 pages an hour, but I don’t have some crazy way I do it, it just happens I guess?
Like I just sit down and read, not really thinking about how fast I’m going. It just happens naturally with no thought to it!
I try to do that with school books! I don’t want to do that for my own personal reading! Even as the books stack up (and they are stacking up!)
Quality over quantity, my friend.
That’s kind of rude to people who naturally read fast. I get the same quality reading as anyone else, regardless of speed. I’m sure that wasn’t your intention but it kind of came off that way ☺️ I had someone tell me once that I couldn’t possibly be absorbing the story or know anything that was going on just because I read fast, which is completely crazy to say!
Lmao, i AM a fast reader. I just dont think that ‘finding ways to read more books’ is going to keep the fun in it. ?? Who cares how many books you read, as long as you enjoy them, right? ??♀️
Oh yeah, completely agree with that! I figured that wasn’t your intention ☺️ Whenever I do monthly reading challenges in a group on Goodreads that I’m in, by the end of the month I’m so burnt out on reading that I won’t read for a couple of weeks! Trying to power read definitely takes the fun out of it!
Quality not quantity means reading books for enjoyment. It does not imply anything about fast or slow reading. This is how I understand it.
@Zahid that was what I was going for!
You are welcome and don’t forget to read Jailed for Freedom by Stevens. Lol!
Audiobooks when you clean, drive, make dinner, etc.
Audiobooks
Hmm…I used to ask for more but later I told myself, reading is a journey. Well, to reach a destination, other than strolling, you could walk faster or even running. Maybe you could cut some Netflix, some social life, and maybe add more reading time. Some people can’t read medium length book/novel in one sitting but some people, they are speed demons. If you are in a group with demons haha and gasping for air unable to catch up, perhaps you should find other with similar pace like you do. We’d like to make reading enjoyable aren’t we?
Learn to speed read. Its very useful for descriptive paragraphs. You can soak in all of the description quickly and then read the dialogue at your own pace.
That’s exactly what I do. I can tell just by skimming if there’s anything I should slow down for… especially for descriptive paragraphs or details that have already been dealt with as nauseum!
I don’t recall when or how I learned to speed read, but I previously gave someone the advice of not focusing on one word at a time. Instead of reading on word at a time, look at 2 or 3. Then the next 2 or 3. And so on. Work up to more.
Personally, I flit across a line in a fraction of a second. Just practice.
There are also apps I believe that can cycle words at faster and faster rates. Kind of like type training.
The best advice I learned is to not let your mind read the word aloud.
I felt several times a good book draws me in on its own and I can read fast. Thus I am of the view that more or less its about interest of reader in the book which determines pace of reading among other things.
I agree. I breezed thru a 1000 page because it held my interest & couldn’t believed it ended so soon. But it seemed to take me forever to slog thru a 350 pg history book in a subject I’m interested in. Guess it depends on style.
Purpose and content have a lot to do with speed of reading.
Also read, read, read!
Agree ! to read is not a contest but a pleasure as long as it takes it’s ok!
Don’t bother–take your time. I am a speed reader and it’s not always a good thing—I find that many times I miss things, or I don’t absorb everything I read. Take your time, savor your books—they aren’t going anywhere, there will always be another book to read when you are done.
So true I take my time and savour my bks I’m sad when I finish too quickly especially if it’s a good bk
Yep. I was like, faster the better…but it’s not always the case. I feel happy for those who can digest lots of book in a short time but i’m a lot happier with my current pace
You can read really really fast if you don’t sweat comphrehension
Looking at just two places on each line and letting your peripheral vision fill in the rest works well–but for some reason, I find it harder to read that way on an e-reader Also reading a novel where you are dying to find out what happens next, is helpful too.
Why do you want to read faster? When it comes to reading, I’m a strong believer in quality over quantity.
Here here Phillip, you don’t take things in in the same way when speed reading, so whats the point? It’s a bit useless just to say you read so n so many books when you can’t remember any of them!
try audiobooks on the side, it works for me when i´m doing my household chores, at the gym or when i take a walk
Enjoy them books. I read them in a weeks time. Some times more sometimes less.
I tried to follow some tips from speed reading, as well, but I found I didn’t enjoy the book half as much as before. My brain registered the action, but after finishing, when it came to remembering a side character’s name or some minor detail, I couldn’t, and I felt frustrated. For me, language is as important as action, so I’d rather read slower and manage a few chapter at a time, than finish a book in a sitting and forget all about it a week later… So this makes me think, is it really worth the compromise, being able to read more books? The one thing that worked for me was skimming the bigger paragraphs and focusing on key words/phrases in dialogue sections, but even though I knew what was happening, I only saw the bigger picture and I’m sure I missed some details…
…and everyone’s brain works differently!!!