How fast do you read?

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:04 pm

I think I probably read at around 40 pages an hour. I used to be a very fast reader, but for some reason I just can't get that kind of speed going any more.

Post by **Cagliostro** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:23 pm

Yeah, it depends what I'm reading. Probably 20 pages an hour with Covenant books, and probably well over 50 with Harry Potter books.

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:26 pm

Oh thank god! I am not a freak. I read about 120 pages too.

Post by **Cagliostro** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 5:28 pm

Cameraman Jenn wrote:Oh thank god! I am not a freak. I read about 120 pages too.

Nobody said you aren't a freak. We just have 2 of them here.

Post by **Damelon** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 5:38 pm

If it's something I'm interested in, 60 - 70 pages an hour is no problem.

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 9:36 pm

Thanks Cag....thanks alot for your support, Brother!

Post by **Seareach** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:22 pm

Avatar wrote:(Oh, and I had meningoencephalitis (a combination of meningitis and encephalitis) twice in my childhood. I also reckon it stuffed up my brain. )

Ah...that' explains a lot!

But, hey...you're lucky to be alive eh! That's terrible stuff!

Oh, and I was so disillusioned by my approximation of how many pages I read an hour I checked last night and it's 12 pages an hour. Not 8-10. 12 pages....<sigh>

Post by **stormrider** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 11:16 pm

Yeah, but I bet you absorb it really well. If I get really interested in something I've never read before, I read a lot faster than I normally would and consequentially fail to retain important information. I would think that one nice thing about reading 12 pages an hour is that you get to enjoy a book longer. If I start reading very quickly, which, for me, is 70-80 pages an hour (I have no idea how these people read 120 pages!) and then stay up a day and a night to finish a book, I'm always kind of disappointed when it ends because I have nothing else to look forward to (well, until the next book comes out, anyway). I apparently lack the discipline to restrain myself from staying up for 48 straight hours to finish a book, but I wish I could break that habit.

Post by **Avatar** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:39 am

stormrider wrote:I would think that one nice thing about reading 12 pages an hour is that you get to enjoy a book longer...I apparently lack the discipline to restrain myself from staying up for 48 straight hours to finish a book, but I wish I could break that habit.

Damn, is that ever true. I'm always short of books to read. I waited and waited for Runes and then I read it in a day. It's like "New book! Yaay! Oh. Finished. Now what?" :LOLS:

And yeah Sea, can be very nasty. Death or brain damage. Lucky indeed. (In fact, I apparently have 4 parallel scars on the surface of the right hemispere. If it did alter my brain in any way, I got no place to complain...I seem to have come out of it well.

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--A

Post by **Seareach** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:49 am

Avatar wrote:[And yeah Sea, can be very nasty. Death or brain damage. Lucky indeed. (In fact, I apparently have 4 parallel scars on the surface of the right hemispere. If it did alter my brain in any way, I got no place to complain...I seem to have come out of it well. )

Yeah, I was critical for quite a few days (as I didn't go to hospital until I realised there was something REALLY wrong and proceeded to pass out as soon as I got to emergency. Woke up 7 days later!).

Funny thing was, after my second cat scan they told me that I'd obviously had my nasal passages drilled when I was young...which I had not/have not. Aliens, I tell ya! ALIENS!

Post by **Loredoctor** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:57 am

The aliens took out your nice side!

(okay, poor joke)

Post by **Avatar** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:10 am

--A

Post by **Cagliostro** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 2:22 pm

Cameraman Jenn wrote:Thanks Cag....thanks alot for your support, Brother!

That's what adopted twins are for, right Sea (even though yours isn't adopted)?

Post by **Seareach** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:02 pm

Cagliostro wrote:
Cameraman Jenn wrote:Thanks Cag....thanks alot for your support, Brother!
That's what adopted twins are for, right Sea (even though yours isn't adopted)?

...er and she's not my brother either!

Post by **Auleliel** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 4:37 am

Cagliostro wrote:
Cameraman Jenn wrote:Oh thank god! I am not a freak. I read about 120 pages too.
Nobody said you aren't a freak. We just have 2 of them here.

Make that 3. I do 100-120 for fun.
However, for school textbooks it's probably about 1-2.

Post by **Farm Ur-Ted** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 3:58 pm

Dang, I'm reading Ship of Magic (Hobb) right now, and timed myself a few times over the weekend. I'm faster than I thought (woo-hoo!). I was cruising at a little better than 40 pages per hour. It's a fairly easy read, though. I'm sure I'll be much slower when I hit Memories of Ice after I finish this trilogy.

Post by **aliantha** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 4:34 pm

Oh yeah. Erikson slows me down something fierce.

I was doing about 70pp/hr with Harry Potter 7 (until my eyes started to cross -- damn this whole middle-age thing, anyway), but I just started a re-read of Memories of Ice and I'm much slower at this...

Post by **Edge** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 4:41 pm

If 120 pp/h makes one a freak, then just call me super-freak.

Post by **emotional leper** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 6:24 pm

Edge wrote:If 120 pp/h makes one a freak, then just call me super-freak.

Pages in Deathly Hallows / 5 hours.

Post by **matrixman** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 7:09 pm

I don't consider myself a fast reader, but it depends on the author and content, as others have said. I can still whip through a book if I'm really into it. Recently I read Childhood's End (for the first time) in the space of a day and an evening, which is insanely fast for me. It helped that the novel was short, and the story was compelling. It also had the advantage of Clarke's lucid writing.

What I find hard to read through is technically detailed descriptions of things - like geography. That had always been the one area of the Chronicles that I had trouble with. That's why the Atlas of the Land was such a welcome thing for me: I could finally comprehend what SRD was describing!

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