Vary your reading rate to suit the difficulty and type of writing
of the text. Poor readers always read at the same slow rate. An efficient reader
speeds up for easier material and slows down for the hard. Some things were not
meant to be read quickly at all. Legal material and very difficult text should
be read slowly. Easier material and magazines and newspapers can be read
quickly. Poetry and plays were meant to be performed, and if not acted out, then
at least, spoken out loud orally. This obviously will conflict with good speed
reading method which forbids vocalization. Religious writings and scripture were
originally written to be recited and listened to by an audience which was likely
to be intelligent, but illiterate. The "fun" of poetry, plays, or prayer is not
really experienced if you "speed read" the text. |
