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Feasts and Fables's avatar

Excellent … “Reading fast is like going on an electric scooter through a museum and claiming you’ve seen all the paintings.” … such a good way of putting it. And the etymology 👌🏻

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Matthew Long's avatar

Thanks for sharing this article with me Monica. I appreciated getting to see your perspective on this topic and I agree that reading for numbers misses the point. I particularly enjoyed the etymology as I do believe it is important to understand where our words come from.

I will say that I think a person can be a voracious reader and not be focused on numbers. Different people will naturally read at different speeds. Nothing wrong with that. I think the issue becomes when the focus becomes the number of books. Even a person who is a "slow reader" could miss out if they were trying to reach some arbitrary numerical goal without really retaining what they read.

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