It has been said that those who are promoted to officialdom in this the GS Book Club forum have comfortably cleared the HUMP of 1000 words per min reading speed. The position of CM, it is rumored, has a hurdle of an order of magnitude (OoM) higher.
It was recently reported that the concept of speed reading, in actuality, is a myth. An article appearing in the week gone by WSJ states that speed reading is just a glorified form of skimming. Where the reader reads arbitrary words separated by volumes of text.
The speed readers performed poorly when reading fiction. While they did well with non-fiction. The caveat? Those who DIDN’T read nonfiction did equally well.
So dear readers, GS Book Club Moderators and Channel Managers, is speed reading a myth or fiction? And if the answer is in the affirmative, should we reconsider the appointments of the GS Book Club Officials?
I don't think that there is a perfect answer for this question. Sometimes, we read complete books with great speed, if we develop interest (be it fiction or non-fiction). Otherwise, its skimming on the parts which you can't relate to.
A book of say 250-300 pages in a week is my speed. I give an hour or two daily to reading. Sometimes, I don't get time, but with this routine, I was able to finish 50 books last year (with around no. of pages 13000 + as per Goodreads statics. That included some books I couldn't complete). You can do the maths :p
It has been said that those who are promoted to officialdom in this the GS Book Club forum have comfortably cleared the HUMP of 1000 words per min reading speed. The position of CM, it is rumored, has a hurdle of an order of magnitude (OoM) higher.
It was recently reported that the concept of speed reading, in actuality, is a myth. An article appearing in the week gone by WSJ states that speed reading is just a glorified form of skimming. Where the reader reads arbitrary words separated by volumes of text.
The speed readers performed poorly when reading fiction. While they did well with non-fiction. The caveat? Those who DIDN'T read nonfiction did equally well.
So dear readers, GS Book Club Moderators and Channel Managers, is speed reading a myth or fiction? And if the answer is in the affirmative, should we reconsider the appointments of the GS Book Club Officials?
It should also teach us to skip all the unnecessary stuff ,such as linking verbs,articles etc. Maybe it does...who knows. I had heard Lucid mention it on GS once. That was the first I had heard of Speed reading.
It should also teach us to skip all the unnecessary stuff ,such as linking verbs,articles etc. Maybe it does...who knows. I had heard Lucid mention it on GS once. That was the first I had heard of Speed reading.
Why woukd u want to avoid articles. There are so many interesting and informative articles
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Subvocalization, or silent speech, is the internal speech typically made when reading; it provides the sound of the word as it is read.
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