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Anonymous Fri Sep 16 23:02:26 2022 No.20999599 [Reply] [Original]

I just read for 3 hours and was only able to get through 50 pages. How do I read faster?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 16 23:03:23 2022 No.20999609 delete system32

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 16 23:22:14 2022 No.20999695 >>20999599 Humblebragging much

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 16 23:23:37 2022 No.20999700 >>20999599 Its okay anon. You're gonna make it. We are all gonna make it. We are all gonna be jacked and well read. Now that you read for three hours get down and do twenty push ups faggot.

Anonymous Fri Sep 16 23:27:16 2022 No.20999721
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>>20999599
1 convert w/e pdf file youre trying to read to text (you may have to do it manually consider libreoffice)

2 download @voice (text to speech reader) on your phone

3 upload text file you converted in step 1

4 increase the speed of voice in tts program

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 16 23:29:45 2022 No.20999739 File: 85 KB, 1024x794, 1641093102177.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >read ~150 pages in an hour >will only have one session of reading once every 3-4 months Would you rather be like me OP?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 16 23:33:15 2022 No.20999762 >>20999599 by reading more. it's called practice.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 16 23:41:33 2022 No.20999797 >>20999739 >read like 2 books in a week >never touch a book again for the next 3 months Why am I like this?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 16 23:45:44 2022 No.20999816 >>20999739 >>20999797 Go back to your containment boards

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 00:38:55 2022 No.21000067 >>20999700 I could barely do a single pushup. I have no strength in my arms.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 00:42:05 2022 No.21000079 >>21000067 idk anon. you can start out with wall push ups. no shame in the game there. do some light curls. some body weight squats.

Anonymous Sat Sep 17 00:48:10 2022 No.21000101

Why do you want to read faster? It's not a competition. Besides, page count is arbitrary since page size, font size, and the author's style determine how fast a page can be read. It also depends on the material you're reading. Dense philosophy books may require a slower pace and greater focus than an airport thriller. Concern yourself with understanding and hopefully enjoying the book - not with how fast you're reading it.

Anonymous Sat Sep 17 01:16:45 2022 No.21000211
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>>20999599
>I just read for 3 hours and was only able to get through 50 pages. How do I read faster?
Depends on what you're reading.
If you're reading philosophy or history, then it's better to read slower to soak up all the information.
If you're reading something like genre fiction, then it's just cringe, literary fiction depends on the book.

Anonymous Sat Sep 17 02:19:02 2022 No.21000419

i usually spend two minutes on a page when I'm reading normally. sometimes I get a burst of concentration and read maybe 1-1,5 page/minute, but they don't last very long.

if you are reading fiction you don't need to read every single word, as long as you can picture the sense of the sentences.

Anonymous Sat Sep 17 03:24:32 2022 No.21000595

>>20999721
Not the best way.

1. Try to find an HTML version online so it is easier to copy and paste. If you cannot then get a pdf and pray to god the font is clearly and the pictures are high quality, if they are then you should be able to copy and paste from the pdf manually.

2. Use amazon polly on AWS for free TTS and allows the compiling of 100,000 character sections.

3. copy paste and then download the audio file.

4. use audacity and speed up the tempo to what ever you desire. I have found the best is about 8%.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 03:25:44 2022 No.21000599 >>21000211 Fuck reading slowly. I'd rather read a philosophy book fast twice then slowly once. And then I could go back and look at the text afterwards to see any graphs or numbers that I missed.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 03:25:54 2022 No.21000600 File: 57 KB, 720x960, 4channer-irl.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21000211 >If you're reading philosophy or history, then it's better to read slower to soak up all the information.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 03:34:14 2022 No.21000615 File: 279 KB, 899x673, 1624777372346.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21000599 >>21000600 Let me guess, you love genre fiction because you're both brainlets?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 03:34:37 2022 No.21000617 >>20999721 So you're not reading, you're listening. How does this help OP?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 03:38:51 2022 No.21000634 File: 695 KB, 565x585, this is you.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21000615 >Let me guess, you love genre fiction because you're both brainlets?

Anonymous Sat Sep 17 03:41:48 2022 No.21000650

>>21000615
No, they are the skim readers who you occasionally get into an argument with here, and you have to wait 3 posts into the argument to realize they comprehended almost nothing about the books they "read." They're basically ADHD retards or children/teenagers who think they can have everything for very little effort, that or they just like to pretend they're well read.

Anonymous Sat Sep 17 03:54:59 2022 No.21000685
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>>21000650
>No, they are the skim readers who you occasionally get into an argument with here, and you have to wait 3 posts into the argument to realize they comprehended almost nothing about the books they "read." They're basically ADHD retards or children/teenagers who think they can have everything for very little effort, that or they just like to pretend they're well read.

Anonymous Sat Sep 17 04:00:06 2022 No.21000701
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I mostly just read like 10-20 pages a day. Sometimes I’m just too damn tired from work to read. Plus I’m internet addicted cause zoomer millennial 95’r

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 04:43:06 2022 No.21000832 >>20999599 Just keep posting frogs bro I’m sure it will work out

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 05:21:35 2022 No.21000938 >>21000595 I don't know how people can do it. Having to listen to both the tts and my inner voice while reading is just impossible to focus.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 05:45:19 2022 No.21000993 >>21000938 Have you tried not being an autist?

Anonymouṡ Sat Sep 17 08:14:34 2022 No.21001409

>>20999599
50 pages in 3 hours is fine. If you do that every day it means you can read a book a week. If you read a book a week, you'll have read everything you really need to read in a couple of years.

50 pages per day puts you ahead of /lit/ by about 49 pages per day.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 08:17:36 2022 No.21001416 Skip some paragraphs. The pages will fly by.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 08:19:15 2022 No.21001420 File: 166 KB, 592x787, wagner bruckner snuff.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] take the nicotine pinch

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 08:23:37 2022 No.21001431 >>20999599 If you read a complex book it's a normal pace.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 10:43:31 2022 No.21001728 >>20999599 What were you reading?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 11:14:38 2022 No.21001799 >>21000617 I think they recommend reading and listening simultaneously to pace the reading.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 13:20:13 2022 No.21002211 >>21000211 >smoking cat

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 13:22:20 2022 No.21002222 >>20999599 50 pages in 3 hours is totally fine. Stop listening to frogposters opinions. Quality > Quantity Reading a lot of books for the sake of it is wasting your time.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 17:23:31 2022 No.21003195 >>20999599 its OK Anon i saw you on the war and peace thread. You were getting acquainted with all those new characters ,its a fine pace. Give it some time and your reading pace will pick up

Anonymous Sat Sep 17 17:26:20 2022 No.21003211

>>20999797
i read brothers karamazov and i get like through 100 pages a day, it will take me over a week since it has 900+, but i do not know if it's a lot because the edition are those pocket books thingies that are really popular where i live for some reason

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 18:03:41 2022 No.21003405 >>21002222 >Reading a lot of books for the sake of it is wasting your time. Why?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 18:05:16 2022 No.21003417 >>20999816 No, I am in my reading phase so I will browse and post here until I stop to read again.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 18:53:36 2022 No.21003610 I re-read passages all the time and stop at night as soon as I notice I start skimming paragraphs.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 19:13:09 2022 No.21003711 >>21003405 because you don't enjoy or learn anything from them.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 19:21:52 2022 No.21003730 >>20999599 1 page in 3m45s is fine, OP. Comprehension is all that matters. Also, if this is dense literature like philosophy or math, that is quite fast.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 20:02:14 2022 No.21003901 File: 18 KB, 246x250, 1429404724603.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20999599 >he doesn't read 100 pages in one hour while shitposting on /lit/ at the same time ngmi

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 20:29:27 2022 No.21004031 >>21000595 >audacity if hes on mobile he could use vlc or aimp to speed up the audio as well

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 20:33:41 2022 No.21004055 File: 94 KB, 918x1224, Portrait_of_Harriet_Beecher_Stowe,_1852._(21452599131)_(cropped).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21000617 I could ask you the same question

Anonymous Sat Sep 17 21:02:37 2022 No.21004169
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>>20999599
>>20999721
if you go this route this site may be helpful to remove the line breaks once youve converted the text

https://www.gillmeister-software.com/online-tools/text/remove-line-breaks.aspx

Anonymous Sat Sep 17 23:25:20 2022 No.21004843

>>20999599
For reading the Bible, that's actually pretty good. Pat yourself on the back, Anon. If you can read 50 pages a day it should only take you about a month or two. Once you're done with that move on to Shakespeare, and with those two out of the way feel free to explore.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 17 23:34:03 2022 No.21004874 >>20999816 Not reading is quintessential /lit/ behavior.

Anonymous Sun Sep 18 04:26:43 2022 No.21006085

>>21000211
>>21001431
>>21001728
>>21003730
>>21004843
It was Fahrenheit 451, which I don't think is a dense or difficult read. When I read my mind tends to drift so I have to reread pages once I realize that I was just performing the act of reading without actually paying attention.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 13:50:08 2022 No.21007281 test

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 14:04:15 2022 No.21007318 >>21003211 On a regular sized book Karamazov is 800

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