How do you prefer to read: fast or slow?

I'll read word by word but when it's getting boring, I would just skim through it ...

Audiobooks.

I never understood the concept of reading slow.

I would prefer to read fast but my eyes only let me read slow.

Depends how slow or fast we are talking about, but I generally like to take my time and immerse myself in the universe of the book, like you said.

I tend to read quite fast but slower depending on the type of material I'm reading or how many time's I've read it before.

I read slow almost all the time but I sometimes read fast when I have to.

When I read fiction, which I dont do very often, it has to be suspenseful so I usaually read fast because I want to know what will happen asap
When reading research papers and the like it depends...if its complicated and interesting it takes time and sometimes pausing and thinking...other times I skip a lot of it if Im only interested in parts of it

I'm a pretty slow reader. TBH I don't read for pleasure very often...mostly plane rides and vacations, both of which are rare.
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I tend to read quite fast, but quite often, when there's a lot of things going on, I'll put down the book for 1-2 min to just process what I've just read.

Slow, very slow, I read so slow that sometimes I bore myself and just stop reading for a while, it actually buggers me that I can't finish a book for weeks. I could read faster but as you said I wouldn't be as involved in the story.

Depending on the difficulty of the novel and my mood, medium speed of fast- even the medium mean around 100 pages/hour, if the letters are big with a lot of space between lines, even 2-3 pages/minute. Usually I just have a cloudy-picture of characters in my head, like you take a puppet, imagine the most typical cloth of the character on it, imagine the adjectives swirling around it, or something like that. In my head the characters doesn't have faces, only if required and detailed (eye colour, slim face, long nose, etc), and sometimes I don't even read their names completely, just make a mental photo of how the word looks like, and linking it to the character. For me it's mostly the remembering part, when the story starts to take actual form - I absentmindedly visualize it later, while only read and store the text at reading.

I wish I could read fast(er), but I'm probably one of the slowest readers. I read around 30 pages per hour. It always takes me a while to get in the reading zone, at the start I can never seem to keep my focus and my mind keeps thinking about others things. Truth be told I'd rather be able to focus more than to read faster. I do tend to visualize the story in my mind, if I attempt to read faster I feel like I'm skipping too much. But I rarely read books, I think I've read less then 50 or so in my entire life.

I usually read fast but it depends on what I am reading.

I feel that some books have their own rhythm and one has to be in tune to enjoy them so I'll slow down.

Too many books to waste time on slow reading ;p But I've always had divisible attention, so for me it's no problem to play whole scene in my head while reading it at the same time ;) The only books I read slowly are ones for learning purposes, any fiction book I will read really fast.