AK <andrei....@gmail.com> writes: > On 09/19/2010 07:18 PM, Gregory Ewing wrote: >> AK wrote: >> >>> Afaik the idea is that you can read a novel at the speed of half a page >>> a second or so and understand it to the same extent as people who'd read >>> at a normal rate. >> >> I've never understood why anyone would *want* to read a >> novel that fast, though. For me at least, reading a novel >> is something done for pleasure, so reading it at ten times >> normal speed would waste 90% of the benefit. >> > > One definite advantage would be that if, say, it takes you 70 pages of a > given novel to figure out whether you like it enough to continue, you'd > want to read those pages in 2 minutes rather than an hour.
Heh, to me speed reading those 70 pages in a very short while, concluding that it's a good book, and start over again would be quite the spoiler. Do you fast forward movies as well? I do speed read but not the books I read for pleasure. -- John Bokma j3b Blog: http://johnbokma.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/j.j.j.bokma Freelance Perl & Python Development: http://castleamber.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list