Slow reading by Merphy Napier

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Personally I'm not a particularly fast reader. When I was young (before I had a clue that I'm mildly dyslexic) I tried some of the techniques for speed reading and found they just made reading not fun for me. Now that I'm much older I realize that I have the most difficulty reading at all when it is a chore, neither interesting nor fun. So speed reading was just a mistake for me. I was just lucky enough to have broad enough tastes, that reading for school mostly went fine.

One thing they taught for speed reading was not sounding the words in your head. I studied enough psychology to know, that reinforcement is a great tool for learning, and guess what speaking the words in your head is. It's no wonder that some speed readers struggle with comprehension, not all, but enough that some studies like the one Merphy mentions, question the idea of teaching speed reading to just everyone as a great study technique.

I recently bought a book of Agatha Christie Miss Marple stories. I've been particularly enjoying them. I'm reading the book of stories slowly, partly because I keep wanting to 'save some for later' and partly because I like thinking about each mystery as I finish it, its strength and weakness as a story, its strength and weakness in logic, and how much the solution came from evidence given in the story or just comes out of thin air. My way of having fun reading each story.