Speed reading - fun?

[Greg]

I love to read. I'm honking about learning speed reading for professional reasons. I'm worried this will kill the joy in reading. What is your experience?

[Angela]

Greg wrote: "I love to read. I'm honking about learning speed reading for professional reasons. I'm worried this will kill the joy in reading. What is your experience?"

I think it's up the individual. I can read fast. I think my years of reading and soaking up the stories have made this possible. I look at it more like this, I can read more stories out there, which is good for me and authors. LOL!!!

[D.C.]

That kind of speed reading is really skimming for information, and you should be able to "turn it off" when you are reading fiction.

[Mariel]

I've wondered about that same thing myself. I've never been taught actual "speed reading," but my understanding is that it is, as D.C. said, skimming for the critical information. I would think you could choose whether or not to do that. Occasoinally when I am reading fiction and can't wait to find something out, I'll more or less speed read through it and often go back and re-read more slowly to savor the details leading up to whatever it was I was dying to know.

[Justin]

I can speed read a normal book but don't because more times then none I find myself going back to pages wondering what's going on lol.

[Greg]

Thanks all

[S.]

speed read is only fun if you are reading leading to an exam :) I've forgotten how that feel to be honest :)