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Speed reader?

posted by [personal profile] sbisson at 01:36pm on 07/12/2002
In today's Guardian there's a piece on how much Jeffrey Archer has read while in jail. They seem to think that 16 long works in 67 days is a goodly amount of reading - though I think they may well not have met fen.

According to my calculations Archer is reading around 0.24 of a novel a day. Looking at the review section of this blog I seem to be reading at a rate of around 0.37 npd - and I know I'm not the fastest fannish reader about. I'd actually guess his reading speed as being fairly average amongst the people I know.

I'd have expected better of a literate newspaper.
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It was on the news too...

posted by [identity profile] adela-terrell.livejournal.com at 04:39pm on 07/12/2002
Me and the Wag overheard it, and I looked to him quizically, doing sums in my head, and he answred "no that is not speed reading" before I could work it out. In a similar suituation (bearing in mind that some of the sixteen were quoted as being plays) ie, naff all else to do cos I'd been locked up, I would expect to have averaged a book a day, poss taking two days on long works... so minimum 30, and only if they are all weighty novels. I would expect to have read and memorized large chunks of 16 plays in a similar time.

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posted by [identity profile] marypcb.livejournal.com at 12:39pm on 08/12/2002
if I could read for the whole of a day non-stop, I'd expect to read 3-5 books a day; limit that to a morning or an afternoon and I'd still expect to finish a book a day and start a second...
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posted by [identity profile] adela-terrell.livejournal.com at 02:49am on 10/12/2002
I'm really glad I was the only one who thought that wasn't speed reading!!

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