>read for 1 hour
>barely finish 20 pages
It's over, isn't it?

>read
>check 4chan after every sentence

>>24491970 (OP)
Seems alright to me depending on what you're reading

>>24491976
it’s a manga

>>24492120
it's so over you might never recover

no. being a slow reader is fine. especially after realizing there aren't that many books that are worth reading, so you're not behind the schedule.

>>24491970 (OP)
20 pages for an hour is good what do you mean

>>24491975
What do you people even do when the power goes out?

>>24491970 (OP)
It's better to slowly read and actually understand what is going on a page than to skim through everything while having zero idea what is currently going on in the story.
>>24492120
It's over for you.

>>24492182
>>24492213
How the fuck are there so many barely literate copers on this board?

>>24492291
coping for what exactly? most well read people are the dumbest people I've known. people who think reading is so important are the stupidest people I personally know. they just don't understand what are books about and go through the motions.

>>24491970 (OP)
Have you tried reading in your native language instead of English?

>>24491976
Not OP but I just read 18 pages in 1 hour. The book was From Cyrus to Alexander by Pierre Briant

>>24492315
Right well that personal anecdote is the opposite of every finding on literacy ever. We have tests on this every year twice a year. The better your literacy is, the faster you can read and absorb the necessary information. It’s a routine exam for university studies and is taken by millions at this point.
If you’re struggling to clear 20 pages in an hour you can barely read let alone “absorb” what’s on the page. That it’s some sign of sophistication is just a deranged cope on this board.

>>24492487
Nice attempt at demoralisation

>>24491970 (OP)
This is why i do audiobooks

>>24492451
See >>24492344
>>24492487
Close-readings debunk your theory. Nobody does a close-reading by speed reading, and we get most of our literary analysis on texts from close-readings.

I read about 40-60 pages per hour.
It never feels like enough.

>>24491970 (OP)
speed isn't worth anything
comprehension is what matters
if anything you should be going slower

>>24492487
Books are a hobby which you are supposed to enjoy
Why give a fuck if you do it slow or fast?

>t.ESL cope

>>24492291
>>24492487
You are not cool for reading books fast retard

>>24492880
i watch youtube on 2x btw

>>24492192
where do you live that the power going out is a regular occurrence

>>24492886
you have to move fast. move decisively. dont waste movement. tell yourself: I keep having more energy

>>24492120
I understand you
>https://mangadex.org/chapter/51ecc2a8-1785-44ce-953f-45397545ef0c/1

>>24493076
>words words words
what's the point of drawing a manga

>>24493076
>Ravages of Time
you should have expected this

>>24493086
You've established a preconceived notion of what a medium should be, hence your contradiction. But, doesn't that make the manga an avant-garde?

>>24492487
you see what I'm talking about right, you are so stupid that you can barely form a coherent sentence. you have no idea where you've started from logically and where you're going. you are the NPC that speed reading courses are aimed for because in your small brain you intuitively came to the wrong conclusion that reading faster = reading more books = more smart.

I am doing you a favor by responding to you but your small brain and your ego is a deadly combination so instead of picking up something important I'm trying to convey to your tiny brain you will keep seething like the retard you are.

>>24492587
English is my native language mate

>>24492192
Turn on the generator

>>24491970 (OP)
do I stop the clock when my eyes go over the same line or page - yes an entire fucking page - because my brain is daydreaming the same instance I'm tryin to conceptualize the author's idea.
>it's always tug-o-war, the ride never ends.

>>24493850
If you could bring yourself to use no tech/screens except as necessary (work, email, communication) for a month this would start to subside.

>>24493709
actually had to do this about 10 minutes after making this post

>>24491970 (OP)
Speed readers are retards. You don't read literature the same way you would read a business email, just robotically intaking information in the most efficient way possible. Reading literature is a contemplative activity that involves lingering over a text, appreciating its various meanings and contradictions, reading forwards and backwards, re-reading, cross-referencing, analyzing its formal features, exercising one's imagination to the fullest extent possible in order to build out the world and the emotional lives of the characters. Speed readers are mainly interested in marking books off a checklist, "finishing" them in order to tell others they've read them and produce wikipedia-level summaries of the "plot" and "themes".