How fast do you read a book you like?

[Imran Siddiqui]

we had radio which was superior to reading... then television... now the internet... damn yall are a full century behind technologically with your... books

Books are usually better than anything on the radio, television (well, when it isn't baseball season ), or the internet.

[Pekka]

Tass, man you're a fast reader? 1000 pages in 5 hours? Out of my league!

If I really really like the book, I'll read in one day. If it's less than 400 pages. If I have the whole day off and nothing else to do that is. The book has to really catch me though.. but sometimes it happens.

[DRoseDARs]

The fastest I've read (and comprehended what I read) that I've measured was 200+ pages in 3 hours or a little over a page a minute of a-little-smaller-than newspaper print font size. I know I can read (and comprehend what I've read) a bit faster than that, but I haven't measured it in a long time. I'll have to dig out my copy of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy (plus the prequel and sequel books) and time myself again. That's pretty close to 1500 pages worth of ing...

[PLATO]

Originally posted by Albert Speer


alright plato... you're officially a weirdo

Considering the source...Thank You!

[DRoseDARs]

1000 pages / 5 hours = 200 pages an hour

200 pages / 60 minutes = 3.33... pages a minute

Tass, reading that fast...how much do you ACTUALLY understand of what you've read?

[Sava]

Tassadar doesn't read, the Party straps him to a chair, tapes his eyes open, and displays the text in optical viewers that look like VR sets.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Generally I average out a little over 100pgs/hr on books that are fairly complex, but that usually slows down if I like a book.

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs
1000 pages / 5 hours = 200 pages an hour

Maybe I've miscalculated

I usually understand the book pretty well. But given your calculations...I'm probably off by quite a bit

Tassadar doesn't read, the Party straps him to a chair, tapes his eyes open, and displays the text in optical viewers that look like VR sets.

Is there anything wrong with that?!

[DRoseDARs]

Tass, suddenly your current sig seems that much funnier...

Preemptive strike...
No, Fez, my statment was NOT an attack. Put your thumb over the name and just laugh, m'kay?

[Nubclear]

Took a test, and I read at 437 words per minute....I would rate this as a pretty neutral document.

http://www.readingsoft.com/

I'm too lazy to do math. Get from that what you like

[DRoseDARs]

I got 470 wpm; light skimming (numbers and equations make my eyes glaze over). If the subject matter were a little more interesting (fictional reading as opposed to statistics and educational info) then I'd probably do better, otherwise seems about right.

[GePap]

To me the material makes a huge difference, and not as much whether I like it or not (If I dont like it, I won;t read much of it period, unless assgined).

I could hardy read 100 pages of Kant as fast as 100 pages of Asimov.

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs
I got 470 wpm; light skimming (numbers and equations make my eyes glaze over). If the subject matter were a little more interesting (fictional reading as opposed to statistics and educational info) then I'd probably do better, otherwise seems about right.

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[DRoseDARs]

Well, Pekka's 40meg funny-haha video is still loading...so I'll download the software later.

It better be worth it, Pekka...or else it'll cost you your spleen...

[Pekka]

It's worth it!

I got 260wpm... but with 100% comprehension..
but I don't like to read english this fast normally.