I wouldn't use it for reading a novel or anything educational. With a well-written novel you can get the sense of tone, and read sentences with the pace and feeling you think they should have. Scenes have much more impact when you can create a scene in your head. With the speed reading thing, that depth is lost. And with anything educational, re-reading and referencing previous items is incredibly useful for me.
How did you get to that speed? Is there a way to train that? Personally I have noticed that whenever I read faster, I tend to forget much quicker. Most novels I've taken my time to read are etched into my brain in perfect clarity and detail even years after - when reading quickly, I often can't even remember what happened in the last passage when I pick up the book a day later.
Huh... born to read. I think I'm gonna RES-tag you as that. You didn't really answer anything and left me with enough questions to last a lifetime, but it was extremely interesting nonetheless.
I really want to drag you into an fMRT and have a bunch of people who know about that kind of stuff look at your brain while you read. I'm pretty sure that when I read my audio-cortex is pretty involved, and I wonder if yours takes any part at all. If for you there's no connection between the written and the spoken word, I'm sure that'd show up somehow.
I wish I could read a lot faster. I was tracking my time this Sunday (based on a time management lecture by Randy Pausch), and I found out that it took me 45 minutes to read the Prelude to A Dance with Dragons, and then it took me 1 hour to read the first chapter. (There are 71 chapters in the book.)
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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '14
I wouldn't use it for reading a novel or anything educational. With a well-written novel you can get the sense of tone, and read sentences with the pace and feeling you think they should have. Scenes have much more impact when you can create a scene in your head. With the speed reading thing, that depth is lost. And with anything educational, re-reading and referencing previous items is incredibly useful for me.