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Some are reading with great comprehension rates, most are skimming through content, and up to the..next piece.

• tshaddox 5y ago
  Are comprehension rates that important when your goal isn’t something serious like education or self-help?
• DoItToMe81 5y ago
  For me, it was my school's enforced reading and book reports that taught me to skim and just pick up enough info to write a report, and the internet was ultimately what restored my capability to read and attention span, as I could find things that genuinely interested me. Obviously, the internet has changed a lot since I was a kid, but I'm not entirely sure that there's just nobody being exposed to larger amounts of text and that few people online have interests greater than TikTok.
• resonious 5y ago
  I think this is pretty natural given we live in an information-abundant world now. Taking the time to read everything you could get your hands on makes a lot of sense when you don't have constant access to everything. For me, there are some writings that are really great and some that are a drag. I typically skim to figure out if something is really great. If it looks good after a skim, I'll dig deep. I suspect many others are the same, though there probably are some junkies who never dig deep.
• ZephyrBlu 5y ago
  How is this different from reading books? Most people are likely not "reading with great comprehension rates" when they read a book either.
  • TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
    If you read fiction books that way, you're not going to enjoy the book very much. In fact, you likely won't finish it.