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- From: aaron@minster.york.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
- Subject: Re: Reading (was Re: Speed-Reading)
- Message-ID: <721315232.6962@minster.york.ac.uk>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 13:20:33 GMT
- References: <2146@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
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- W.G.Day (wgd@ukc.ac.uk) wrote:
- : In article <1992Nov5.072954.18666@nuscc.nus.sg> iscksc@nuscc.nus.sg
- : (Mr Khoo Siau Cheng) writes:
- : > "... Many books are hardly worth even skimming: some should be read
- : > quickly; and a few should be read at a rate, usually quite slow,
- : > that allows for complete comprehension.
- :
- : One of the great falacies of reading!
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- I read fiction slowly to allow my imagination to develop appropriate images.
- On my straw poll of reading habits (which only consisted of six) people all
- three who read slowly claimed they had visual memories, the three that read
- quickly claimed they did not, the visual did not interest them, or that a
- visual memory without language was impossible.
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- Aaron Turner aaron@minster.york.ac.uk
-