Comments on: reading speed

by: Roger Darlington

Tue, 01 Mar 2005 23:16:46 +0000

I too am a slow and deliberative reader and need quiet to read. I mark up books as I read them and then review them for my web site after I’ve finished them. So I don’t read as fast or as much as some others, but I appreciate what I do read and tend to remember it.

by: asides.of.life/(parenthetical digressions)

Sun, 27 Feb 2005 00:22:07 +0000

clippings

Putting God Back Into American History “Their campaign and the liberal resistance have turned even the slightest clues about the souls of the Republic’s great leaders - that Washington left church before communion and almost never referred to Jesus, th…

by: sps

Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:08:57 +0000

As a BA in english and psych and division 1 runner for my whole undergraduate career, plus this first year as a grad student in education because of injury redshirt seasons, I am incredibly empathetic. I haven’t been on your site in awhile, but I read that post hoping that you had found an answer. I, too, am an easily distracted person. I have found that listening to jazz really helps me cut off the outside world. I use my computer to collect notes and look up definitions, though, so of course the damn thing is really tempting. While I have really enjoyed using my remaining eligibility for cross country and track, I am really looking forward to next year when I am done. i really started to get serious about my education around the end of my junior year (I think, in no small part, because of my introduction to blogging and how much information really is on the internet), but because serious running is such a demanding part of my life, I just have never been able to really dive into as much reading as I wish I could. I’ll let ya know if I find any good tricks.

by: Besserwisser

Sat, 26 Feb 2005 09:34:48 +0000

loath: Adj. (I’m loath to…)
loathe: Verb (I loathe to…)
Или нет?

by: John

Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:08:28 +0000

Hey Emily, I feel your pain as a fellow reading turtle! I actually gave up on it decades ago…makes my brain hurt. I do sometimes wish that my disdain for reading would have been recognized early on, so I could have at least explored learning styles with a bit more success. It is really unbelievable to me now to look back and wonder what I missed. I ain’t never read a whole book for fun or school…EVER! While that is nothing to be too stoked about, I have developed wicked visual skills and get through 1.75 bachelor’s degrees as a moron. 8 )
You can probably read circles around me. Therefore, I declare you a reading genious!

by: Sean

Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:35:50 +0000

I got a great CD-ROM from the library called Ultimate Speed Reader. It actually has all these exercises that work on training your eye movement. And it’s all kind of like a video game.