How Fast Do You Read?

(oops)... don't think I'm faster for non fic though. I subvocalise (wouldn't know how to stop) and visualise.

I probably don't achieve the giddy heights of 80wpm with e.g. Henry James.

wpm? ppm.

Yes that's 80 posts per minute trying to correct my own idiotic mistakes. Pph.

I thinkit was comfortably about a page a minute if I was relaxing. Did get a bit faster overa summer in 2003 when I was just reading books at top speed. about a book a day. Not sure what i retained from it, think I read acouple of thigs a couple of times. Was just working through a whole load of books from teh University library.
Could possibly do with rereading a couple of them. I remember reading a book on Rimbaud and his time in Africa which I wish i could remember teh contenst of better. Also I think KIng Leopold's Ghost was taht summer.
Did I read Korzibski then too?

Anyway think about a page a minute comfortably .

I've been stuck at 6 pages per hour for YEARS, it's fucking hell

i'm a subvocalizer, which i always thought was how everyone read but apparently not. i've tried to break the habit but reading without 'hearing' the words is very strange to me, and it feels like i'm not absorbing anything or even reading at all.

I cannot visualise anything and I read too fast, so I dunno

― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 20 March 2021 22:19 (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Same. I used to think it was cool to read 2-3 books in a day and now I think it sucks.

I'm increasingly slow and it pains me - probably 40 pages an hour, but I genuinely can't remember the last time I had an unbroken hour of reading.