As a brainlet who only reads about 350 wpm, I am never satisfied with my reading speed...

As a brainlet who only reads about 350 wpm, I am never satisfied with my reading speed. Is speed reading a viable option? Or is it just a sham that will make me lose all comprehension on what I’m reading.

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you’re way more of a brainlet for caring

Speed reading is a meme. Unless you're slogging a full 10 minutes for one or two pages, just read it at your own pace.

People on lit are so obsessed with the idea of the consumption of knowledge and ideas through reading that it's shocking they're so anti-capitalist. It's such a weird utilitarian reduction to think that if you blow through a text you'd get the same thing from it than if you read it thoughtfully.

How do you expect books to change you and your mind if you don't give them the time they deserve?

Speed is a meme. Concentration is why people can't finish books. A typical 60,000 word book can be read in the time it takes to watch a movie, if you read at 350 a minute and focus.

I'm 250

I'm 300

You shouldn't be reading a book as fast as your max wpm imo. I reread lines and paragraphs multiple times before moving on and try to spend at least a couple minutes on every page. There's no point in reading a book in 2 hours if you don't spend time rereading certain passages or if you don't take the time to think about what's being presented to you.

Not really sure what the consumption of knowledge has to do with capitalism per se; it’s one of the rare things that’s a commodity but doesn’t serve an empty purpose. For this reason I don’t find it completely synonymous with capitalism. If a reader does indeed consume knowledge in this way it’s only superficial and I know many in academia do.

>350 a minute
>time it takes to watch a movie
>350*120
>42,000
Something............................. doesn't add up