>Try subvocalization for the first time
>Never even heard of it before
>Read 100 pages in 3-4 hours, where it would have taken me like 1-2 days otherwise
>Don't feel like I've missed much either, lots of notes/etc
Does it work, though? I'm not sure if I was 100% there, but I definitely wasn't 'internally saying' the words as much as usual.
Can we properly understand things without imagining how they sound? Is it even possible to divorce the appearance/meaning of a word from its sound?
Or is 'subvocalisation' what normal people do, and I've simply been retarded for years?
Just stop.
>>8236170
You don't understand subvocalization.
Reading without imagining the sounds ISN'T subvocalization.
Reading whilst imagining the sounds IS. I imagine you saw the word 'subvocalization' and thought it was something to do with suppressing the sounds/vocalization.
It's not a meme it works. You can't sub vocalize everything. But think of it like higher gears in a car, you only down shift when you need to etc
>>8236170
You were speed-reading, not sub-vocalising.
Do so with caution.
I've been a zealous reader for over two decades and have always double read everything in books I enjoy. I think it is a product of my obsessive compulsiveness, or perhaps the difficult literature I always had to read during school and university, but it can really slow me down. I'm afraid to miss any detail and I often analyze the language itself, being bilingual. Does anyone else do this? I'm trying to improve my speed since it usually takes me 2-3 weeks to read a good sized novel.
>>8236199
This.
If you want to be some idiot who """"allegedly"""" reads 10k+ books in their lifetime, be my guest.
I'd rather read 100 books at a leisurely pace, understand them utterly, and study them to hell and back. Quality over quantity.
>>8236204
No harm at all in double-reading.
In fact, too many people think they're just 'done' with a book when they've read it once.
If you have a good book, it's worth reading several times, never mind once.
>>8236209
Both have their purposes, a lot of books are like sifting through the mud to find gems. Unless you are pouring over a classic or something written by a legendary philosopher who you know is worth reading there is no point in reading every word.
Like N-God once said, authors are guilty until proven innocent. Once I've read through an author who I didn't know much about and determined him innocent I will go back and read slower. If he is guilty, then I will move on without caring what was missed.
>>8236217
This so much. You're never the person you were when you first read a book, we're all beings of becoming. I found I missed so much on my first readings of Plato when I was a teenager and I'm not even a third of the way through my rereading. Someone who reads Plato 5 times probably gets more information than someone who reads 100 different modern books.
>>8236323
>N-God
Who?
>>8236170
>Start subvocalizing because people do it in movies.
>Now cannot think of anything without hearing it as a voice.
>>8236170
I imagine what is happening in each scene that I read and I give the characters voices because its fun and entertaining and I read about 50 pages in 30 minutes so it isn't that bad.
