What kind of reader are you?
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What kind of reader are you?
Are you a skimmer?
Do you read a paragraph and then go back and read it over again to see if you can get more out of it?
Do you write in the margins what you read?
Are you a little bit of everything?
I'm the type of person who reads each word carefully and if I don't understand something, I go back and read it again. I skim very rarely, usually only during VERY slow parts in a book.
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I sometimes reread if a particular passage grabs me as especially well written or if my mind is distracted and I did'nt get it first time.
I rarely write in the margins but I do sometimes make family trees if there are a lot of characters or complicated relationships but always on a postit or sheet of notepaper never on the book itself.
I have a notebook in which I keep quotes or references that grab me as profound, funny or especially apt ... been doing it for years & I love to leaf through them from time to time.
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I know what you mean about the family tree. I had to do it while reading the Eragon books because Paolini brings so many different characters into the story and it is hard to keep up with sometimes.Fran wrote:No I don't skim .... either it's worth reading or it is'nt. I'm not a speed reader but I do read fairly quickly and attentively. If the book is good they could be blowing the last trumpet & I would not lift my head.
I sometimes reread if a particular passage grabs me as especially well written or if my mind is distracted and I did'nt get it first time.
I rarely write in the margins but I do sometimes make family trees if there are a lot of characters or complicated relationships but always on a postit or sheet of notepaper never on the book itself.
I have a notebook in which I keep quotes or references that grab me as profound, funny or especially apt ... been doing it for years & I love to leaf through them from time to time.
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I do exactly the same. Sometimes I'm a little over-zealous, and I miss important points, but its rare.Morrosseth wrote:I'm a very fast reader. Sometimes I'll skip from one line of dialouge at the top to the reply on the bottom, skipping whole paragraphs. Then maybe I'll skim the paragraph I skipped.
I also tend to skip stuff that has no relevance or is just unessasary.
I need to know what happens ASAP
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I don't write in the margins unless it's a textbook. Otherwise if like in the case of Anna Karenina I keep a notebook to remember names (especially when there are a billion characters all with 10 different names!)
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Read the LOTR in one weekend when I was in high school.
A philosophy book I read 10 years ago took almost 4 weeks.
I rarely have to re-read a paragraph in a novel. And when I do it's because I let my mind wander. But if reading for information I may have to do so many times because I won't go to the next paragraph until I understand the one I'm on.
Skimming? Sometimes. Usually when reading novels that have long boring parts like sex scenes or gratuitous love scenes. Am reading The Count of Monte Cristo right now and have skimmed through a couple of parts.
Normally I like to read every word.
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