Not surprisingly, there are far too many people in the world who don't know what they don't know--they'd just rather use their own points of reference as their sample space or definition for what's normal (e.g. "I can believe that someone can lift 5x what I can lift, but not read at 5x what I can read"). I find it most ironic that this happens on an email list, since I'd also be inclined to assume that the same person *might* have access to a web browser and a search engine.

For example, what I could find fairly quickly:

  Human Interaction Speeds
  http://www.humanfactors.com/downloads/aug00.asp

-Ray

On 12/23/2011 9:12 AM, James Young wrote:
Funny, this coming from someone at sky.com just seems poetically
appropriate.

----- Original Message ----- From: "S Lismore" <[email protected]>
To: "feistfans-l" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 8:38 AM
Subject: Re: Possible answer

so you can read 300 pages an hour thats 5 pages a minute and one page
in 12
seconds ??????????????
Do you breath at all durring this ???????
More like in reading a book in 3 hrs ( upto 900 pages) you read the first
chapter and last chapter and fill in the rest yourself, great as every
book
can be read multiple times with a different story leading to the same
ending.

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