How do you prefer to read: fast or slow?

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I read really fast, to the point where I can read a book or two (or even more) depending on the size.

I remember when Harry Potter was coming out, I would go to the midnight premier and wold have it done before my older sister woke up in the morning (much to her enjoyment because she could read it without spending her allowence)

Generally it takes me a minute to finish a page so I would say medium speed to fast by my own standards. However on some novels this can take more time. For example I spent more time reading Illidan novel cause I wanted to make sure I would never miss a thing.

I take the time to let my imagination build the scenes and would consider tit to be slow but others have told me that I read fast based on how quickly the pages turn so it all comes down to perspective

I'm usually pretty slow, but I do think Lovecraft, which I've been reading most recently, is a bit above my comprehension level, so I can't really take it too fast, or I might not understand.

I also envision the story in my head (^w^)

I always read too fast, either in Greek or in English. That was good when I had to read the day before an exam. :P

Time is short i preferred fast read many article is shortline and conclude in most of 1st or 2nd sentence of eqch paragraph

My attention span is really bad so I end up reading really fast, zoning out, getting mad at myself for not processing the words, and repeating that for a few times until my brain decides to actually imagine everything necessary. I do sometimes ignore details if they come in later in the story, like appearance or scenery, sometimes even after, if it's more comfortable for me to imagine them with less details (it's hard for me to keep up with scenery, really small details, dialogue, a lot of action happening in quick successions and things like that because I can't concentrate).
I do sometimes have periods of time when I don't have that much trouble, but it's really rare.
I miss being able to focus enough to read books in a day or two, whenever I want to.

My favorite words these days: "it depends"
Do i want to understand the meaning of a sentence, what the author tried to tell, and not just the context of words? Then i read slower. Otherwise i read faster, in a diagonal way.

And yeah, reading in your non-native language is a bit different as well.

I think I read fast, if something stands out and catches my eye I have to re-read it to get it 100%. It's not a preference really, just adaption, especially if you have to look at a lot of words daily.

I can read fast but then I would have to ask what am I doing, who are those people and why are they dead. But I can still read a book (~300 pages) a day even when I slow down. Although that happened only two or three times, very rarely I have the motivation to do nothing but reading for that long.

Lately I prefer audiobooks, though, I am too lazy to read myself. T_T

Very slow. I think ASOIAF took me around 2 years to finish.

Depends on what and why I read. I took a lot of time to read ASOIAF. You should take your time to fully enjoy the good things.

Sometimes I do what you describe in the OP, sometimes I turn off the internal narrator and read faster.

I don't read as fast as I did when I was younger, because I'm not in as good practice. I don't really read books much anymore; I did enough of that in my adolescence. I read a lot of articles I guess. I'd rather spend three hours on WIkipedia than three hours with a book, at this point.

Boring story: My favorite reading speed/comprehension story is this: I was a junior in high school, reading Piers Paul Read's "Ablaze: The Story of Chernobyl" and about halfway through I put it down for some reason that I can't recall and I didn't go back to reading it for a few days. And I couldn't remember who was who anymore. Having little familiarity with Russian names at the time, I couldn't again make distinct in my mind who this Vladimir was, as opposed to this Vladimir, and this Anton, this Lyudmila, or that Boris, etc. There were too many people with the same name. Anyway, I never finished that book. That's the only time I quit a book because when I picked it back up again I'd basically have to re-read a massive chunk of it and I refused to do it.

Is nobody going to explain ASOIAF? I have to go look it up even after reading all this quickly then slowly,ultimately scratching my head in confusion.

i read fast or slow depending on the story, fast in the action parts or when something exciting is happening and slower in between when character or scene building is happening. not sure if ive explained that to well?, hope you know what i mean.

Fast then re-read it immediately to find stuff I missed the first time

Where is the option: I don't read JK

Skim through a section then re-read the section more slowly.

Fast, unless its important like legal stuff.

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I read a 300 page novel in a few hours.

i readed "IT" stephen king book 1502 pages, in 5 days .p.

and the dome...800 aprox pages in 3 days xD.

My reading has slowed over the years as my eyesight has become poorer - I was clocked in school at 186 words a minute when I was 16 when they were doing some research project for the government. Recently it's down to about 100 or 120 with my glasses, though I have to quantify, I personally think that because my subject matter has become more complex rather than the crappy "teen" novels we were forced to read for the tests.
I do admit however when rereading a novel, I do sometimes slow myself at the end of the paragraph to digest the meanings, or reflect further on why/how the paragraph contributes to the rest of the book and as I know what is about to happen, some things tend to take a deeper meaning and have more impact on the second/third (or in Feists' case, 23rd) readings. I love the Magician (and addon) series, and have even picked out which actor should play who when someone finally gets around to making the movies.

Slower but changing to faster.

With me its the opposite- i read university stuff way way slower then fiction.

Unfortunelly i have so much reading to catch up to (novels, papers, articles, lots more) that im training on faster reading

I like to skim and skip complete paragraphs if they are descriptions, but I enjoy reading and am usually pretty fast. My reading is getting slower compared to what it used to be though. My head used to always be buried in a book studying one thing or another. I can't even tell you the last book I read D: