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We here at Shmoop believe that you should take the time to stop and smell the book. No, not the roses. The book. You won't get pulled over by the cops for breaking the speed reading limit, but you will miss out on meaningful moments, quotes, and characters. Bummer for you!

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slow reading a'la Shmoop... Bobby likes

00:09

to do everything fast likes to drive fast he likes

00:12

to eat first even likes to read fast and why

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not Well between homework and band practice boy scouts and

00:19

his blogged bobby has a lot to do He doesn't [Bobby with his laptop]

00:21

have time to appreciate the finer points and deeper meanings

00:24

of the novels he has to read for english class

00:27

but its speed reading really the answer to bobby's very

00:30

full schedule See scientists have found that when people speed [Scientists look at person speed reading]

00:34

read and simply skim over the words in a book

00:37

they miss a lot like those details of english teachers

00:40

love to test you on but more than grades or

00:43

at stake here Not only do we learn important lessons

00:46

from books but literature also helps us develop into better [Rabbit reading a book]

00:51

more awesome people Generally speaking enter the slow reading movement

00:57

where a speed reading is all about getting through text

01:00

as quickly as possible Slow reading requires us to take [Bobby meditating in bed]

01:04

our time with books so we can truly understand the

01:07

words on the page while also enjoying the story The

01:09

author has fun for us Look at it this way

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Now look at it this way and this way Instead

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of flying through the lord of the rings slow reading

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this trilogy gives us the opportunity to think about bravery [Frodo encounters giant spider]

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and friendship while also counting the number of times gandalf

01:28

could have just summoned those darn eagles for a quick

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flight in to Mordor.. Instead of skimming over beloved

01:34

slow reading this novel forces us to contemplate the horrors

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and consequences of slavery and thank our lucky stars we

01:41

aren't being haunted by a dead baby so how to [Ghost appears in woods]

01:45

slow reading work Exactly It isn't like we have to

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read one word at a time really really slowly We

01:52

give up on reading altogether if we had to read

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it a snail's pace Besides the human brain doesn't work [Snail reading a book]

01:59

or read that way Instead slow reading is about savoring

02:04

the story likely would a steak For example one way

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too slow read is to read a sentence a paragraph

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or a page allowed We could also find a line [Bobby reading book]

02:17

that we particularly like and memorize it or take the

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opening story of a paragraph and ponder what possible past

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the author could lead us down Whatever method we want [Author walks down a path]

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to think about the words in front of us and

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what we can get out of them rather than skipping

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over them as fast as possible So that a minute

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or two later we have no idea what was on [Bobby races to finish line]

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the page We just finished of course just like busy

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bobby We all have demands on our time Slow reading

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may seem like a luxury but it's a luxury we

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should make time for Think of all the people we

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could meet in books all the adventures we can have [Voldemort chasing Harry]

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all the places we could visit that we'll probably never

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see and all the things we can learn that we

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can carry with us into real life So young bobby

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relax Take a chill pill We guarantee that your trombone

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and freakout assignment we'll still be there for you when [A fire appears]

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you close that copy of fahrenheit four fifty one After

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all slow reading isn't just about reading so you don't

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miss a word it's about carrying more for what's between

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the covers of a book then for just getting the book over with...

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