Just finished reading "Ulysses" in half a day. I read 15-20 books a week. Every time one of you guys drops one of those long reading lists: yep I read them all.
I'm the most well read person I know.

>>24601097 (OP)
Based. Make sure to watch movies at 3x speed too. With Bela Tarr you can bump that up to 10x.

no way fag

>>24601097 (OP)
People who actually do this are only lying lying to themselves really. If you're doing this for clout you may as well just straight up lie. There's no way that someone listening to anything substantial gets the same information out of an audiobook of it, I know this basically from trying to listen to audiobooks myself. Do these people have a magic way of absorbing information or are they just really fucking stupid?

>>24601097 (OP)
>Just finished reading Ulysses
>it was an audiobook
"reading"

>>24601097 (OP)
You're still enjoying a narrative, and learning about stories as a result, however you aren't learning about reading. You don't get to focus on the elements of a story like sentence structure and vocabulary, you're letting all that wash over you.

this but I listen at normal speed and rewind each time I miss a word. sometimes I rewind a section 6-8 times (audible skips in 30 second blocks). in those cases i say each word alongside the narrator to make sure i don't space out due to getting bored with the same segment and missing the word again.

>>24601097 (OP)
>not 4x speed

>>24601426
You are probably the only true audiobook listener of all time

>>24601097 (OP)
why waste time listening when ChatGPT can summarize everything important about it in bullet-points?

>>24601097 (OP)
Depending on the reader 2x is effortless. 3x not so much imo.
>>24601119
I watch some tv slop to keep up with watercooler conversations and it’s 2x and I’m skipping ahead. Formulaic drama is ass. Gotta pretend to be normal to climb that ladder though. Can you believe Gulp Shitto said THAT last episode? Woah!

>>24601174
It’s an obvious joke to bait conversation but most things are formulaic. The amount of material you have to plow through in academia is insane but you’re helped by it all being standardized. Nonfiction has maybe 50% actual content at best if it’s written for a popular audience. Most of it relies on tropes and is just wrong. How many times have you read some god awful misrepresentation of Schrodinger’s Cat?
For fiction it depends. Ulysses is too unique but say Sherlock Holmes stories? Formulaic slop. Enjoyable but hardly something you need to savour every word to understand. Half the “classics” is just genre slop of Ye Olden Day. Adventure books? Dickens? Written for mass audiences. Poe? Dime novel crap. Jules Verne is different from adventure or sci fi slop how? No room to move on Jungle Books or Frankenstein, are you serious? How about neverending serials like Count of Monte Cristo?

That said even literary fiction is formulaic. How many depressed huwite male authors can you stand to read about? Woman troubles. Unappreciated at work. Maybe he’s writing a book about a book so it’s a big metanarrative! Woah dude so complex.
Or take the last 10 literary awards for women writing about how much it sucks to be a woman, how they hate their mom and husband. Truly for the intellectual giants only.

Every limb performing a singular action. Right hand in masturbation. Left hand in incantation. Right leg churning butter. Left leg stroking my cat.

>>24601174
I listened to Youtube videos (including university lectures) at 2x speed for years before I cranked up the playback speed on audiobooks. I can usually comfortably listen at 3x speed. At 3.5x unusual words like made-up fantasy names can get hard to decipher.

So some of it is practice, but I've also always had a knack for figuring out muddled messaging and translating between friends and colleagues.

>>24602444
This.
I listen to college books at 3.5x speed (4x is too fast for me).
People are like:
>How can you pay attention?
Or worse:
>You have to read SLOW, because you just have to ok
Like this guy: >>24601174
IDK if they're low IQ or something but people talks about having to re-read shit and it's like REALLY? Maybe it's tiktok addictions that cause people to be unable to pay attention

>>24601097 (OP)
I thought i was the only one doing this.

But I only do 2x though. 3.5x is too much for me. maybe i should try a larger fraction like 2.35 or something

how did you go to 3.5x

You didn't actually read it and I'm tired of pretending you "people" did.

>>24604572
>3.5x is too much for me
It is at first it sounds like:
>grberbgbrbgrbytrgberetbargrtb!!!
But then your brain "locks in" and it's like rain on the roof but with words. And you can't force it because you end up mentally straining & playing catch up which is impossible since 5-7 worlds fly by a second. So what I do is put it on 3.5x and let my brain naturally adjust to it.

1x is for comfy
2x is for information
haven't tried anything above because i only watch youtube videos and you can't increase it past 2x

>>24601119
Thx for the new director anon I was losing my pretension

I am curious as to what the most efficient way to read books is and actually absorb stuff. It seems tricky to retain it all or take notes (mental or physical) doing this.

>>24604572
You can start by listening at 2x for a while. Once your brains get used to the narrator, you can up the speed. I did this when listening to some Father Brown stories, because the narrator was some old Bri'ish poofta fighting to keep his dentures from falling out of his mouth.

>>24605873
They're not telling you that you have to have good focus ability or anything past 2x speed you won't be able to retain information.

You're not the first person to figure out how to speed read you faggot. You're not special.