Speed reader?

[sbisson]

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.

Comments

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

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...

[adela-terrell.livejournal.com]

I'm really glad I was the only one who thought that wasn't speed reading!!

Hxx