Yeah, that's why I hesitate to embrace or work on my speed reading. I can assume it's the case that it's true people who speed read retain more... but I don't see how they could possibly have a deeper understanding. I find it's incredibly beneficial to allow your mind to wander and reflect upon the meaning of the ideas, symbols, character psychology, etc while you're reading... to pursue a thought a passage inspires in you, even write it down and begin to extrapolate versus pushing it out of your head to return to the text and the author's thoughts. The most important element of reading for me is the given and take between the author's thoughts and my thoughts. I will certainly have thoughts on what I've read after I've read it as well, but to shut down the thoughts I have during the reading in favor of direct textual cognition... seems too limiting to me.Quoting megladon8 (view post)