4 Reading Mistakes You Need To Stop Making 

I’m the same with books and making art. No speed-running my hobbies, not when it isn’t necessary or serves a purpose… like with knitting. That’s when it’s my time to be speedy

Im the same!

It's really a bad thing that after I read from a book to not remember all of the action but just some parts of it? Like the book Metro 2033 for example And I've started to read it a few days ago

@@raidingdormouse6093 I zone out in the most action-y bits in movies and books. I watch star wars for the plot,and miss 50% of it because of me not being engaged by action🥴 I don’t know if it’s normal, but might be a reaction to stress? For me at least. Or just interests. I can’t focus on sport or the like either. All in all, action scenes aren’t memorable, but will keep you reading, I suppose.

Unless you’re reading a 1000 page monster book, I don’t really see the point of breaking it up and reading multiple books at the same time.

riight, i know that feeling also in my late 20s, its such a cool experience!

@@HannahMarieee For me, rereading _God Emperor of Dune_ was extremely powerful.

Sometimes it's nice to visit an old friend.

Where were you in 1984?

@@antonboludo8886 In the SC suburbs, nerding down!

Ah, thanks Jason! :)

I think the main reason is that most people, even people who casually read, watch TV for far longer than they read. If you read multiple hours a day it's easy to switch books without getting lost, but if you only read for 30-60min a day or less... then it's gonna be a struggle

@@tonykirk8295 that doesnt really work for people like me, who tends to finish an entire book in a day or two because I can't seem to put down a good story once I pick it up (I just realised that's how I approach most things in my life lol)

I personally like to give a book my whole attention, esspecially if it is a good book, and I do that same for every piece of media. So it is really up to the person in my opinion.

Ok, now that I finished the comment I see it's quite long and I just want to clarify beforehand that it's not ment as any attack on you or claiming your statement to be wrong, people are different, and I were just trying to explain my brain and got a bit carried away trying to explain and list statistics. Still gonna publish the comment though, just wanna make clear that I'm not here to argue, just offer a different perspective. I actually can't keep track of several books or shows. Not in a meaningful way at least. I've tried having several books going on at once, but what happens every single time is I switch books to something I think will suit my mood better, then never go back to the one I left, even if it was a book I really enjoyed. If I need a change of pace again, even if that book I left might've scratched that itch, I'm picking yet another book up, and never going back. I keep them on a shelf next to my bed with bookmarks in them, but I never go back, and if I go back, even if it's just been a few weeks, I find I have trouble remembering what I was reading and getting lost and loosing interest in that book because of it. I've been stuck on page 424 in a Clash of Kings since summer 2017, page 166 in American Pastoral since november 2020, page 64 in Wide Sargasso Sea since January 2021, page 74 in The Book of Three since March 2021, page 192 of Assassins Apprentice since May 2021, page 37 of The Sapphire Rose since summer 2021 and page 53 in a Swedish book since February 2022, but since 2017, when I left Clash of Kings I've read 49 novels, 12 stage plays, 37 short stories (some several times that is not included in the count) and 29 manga volumes, all of them pieces I could finish without switching to something else. And I work the same way with TV-shows. I can keep a couple of sitcoms going at the same time, but mostly because I don't have to remember a whole lot about them. Still I took a break from Friends halfway through season 6 to watch something else, and haven't returned since, and that was 2018. I watched some of Netflix's Riverdale a few years ago, but then Switched to Stranger Things season 3 when that came out, and I've only watched 1 or 2 episodes of Riverdale since, and I just felt lost, even though it had only been a couple of weeks. Other shows I've "taken a break from" (not continued in several years because I started watching something else) include. The 100, Wynona Earp, The Dragon Prince, Kim Possible, Avatar the Last Airbender, Cardcaptor Sakura, The Seven Deadly Sins, Little Witch Academia, Madalorian and Star Wars Clone Wars. I usually avoid getting into series because of this, preferring movies that I can consume all of in one sitting. And I know it sound like I have really bad memory, but I don't think I do. I can remember loads of tiny details from books I read 10+ years ago and haven't re-read at all. I can sometimes even remember if a quote was on a left or right page or at the top or bottom. I've watched book tubers talk about some books I haven't read in ages and they will quote something and despite them having read it recently and me not for many years I can tell that they are paraphrasing, and be right when I look it up.I'm watching a lot of Super Carlin Brothers and when they are taking Harry Potter quizzes I can remember the circumstances behind 90% of the questions, and often times, they, who keep being knowelegable about Harry Potter as a job and claim to re-read them constantly can't. Sure I've read Harry Potter several times, but between my latest Audiobook listen this winter and the time before that was several years, in which I still kept up my knowledge. Similarly I can quote movies I've only seen once several years ago, I can even remember most of what happens in Riverdale season 1 and 2, since I finished those before Stranger Things season 3 came out and I left it, but I couldn't tell you much about what happens in season 3, even though I know I finished that, but broken up in two parts on either side of ST. It's like my brain can process and store the information if I don't consume the media in one go (not one sitting, but uninterrupted by other books/series), but once I've done that it's quite well stored.

Something to pointing the line you're reading also helps

Bionic Reading might be perfect for you. They even have a free converter on their website.

@@anjafink8996 you are a life saver omg Ty!

@@jo6257 😊

Cool tip, but losing focus during reading is 99% of the time caused by low attention span. If you scroll on tiktok or youtube you're training your brain to have 1-2 seconds of attention span. The best solution is meditation and to quit scrolling, but I doubt many will do this since most people are too lazy and addicted

Omg same I love it so much and I'm surprised I can't find many ppl that love it. I met an author who had met Pratchett at the same place he wrote and it was just incredible to find them.

@@nope4309 Which do you love? Titus Groan or Piranesi? Or both (if you like one I think you will like the other).

If you listen on a cell phone you can adjust the playback speed. The three dots in the top right corner will bring up a screen with lots of options.

Well English is my native language and found her speed of talking way too fast. I have seen that a few times in videos where they just talk so fast!

Click on the CC and get the captions or subtitles in English. That way you can follow along. But she speaks way too fast even for native English speakers

I'm a native English speaker and I have to adjust the playback speed for myself lol...Love her channel, but she talks so fast 😆

me ha pasado lo mismo jajajaj, pero ha llegado un punto en el que ya me he concentrado en su discurso y la he entendido

Same i read tons of books out of stress and i only realized that lately so i am trying to not do that again

Or try reading fiction :)

Speed-reading; reading without retaining or analysing, without absorbing or experiencing the text, or speedily *not* reading at all. To each their own I suppose, but speed reading was always a farce to me. It has its place in legal roles, or other jobs laden with bureaucracy, but if you want to enjoy the experience or really learn material- I’d avoid “speed reading” like the plague. It’s a fast way of wasting your time scanning your eyes across paper, and a horribly slow way to actually take anything from the process. Sure, you can probably enter a flow-state or one of heightened concentration, in which your retention rate is the same for an increased rate of lines read, but how long can you sustain this for? And is this a way to gloss over the minutiae that are crucial for either literary escapism or intellectual divestment? I think so.

I thought I was the only one who found the video so fast specifically the way she explain was fast. However, I love the points she gave throughout the video.

I found the speed super stressful as well. You definitely didn’t miss the reading in bed part. The thumbnail is definitely clickbait. Not that the rest of the content wasn’t good. It’s just that the video didn’t include anything about reading in bed.

@@Cmoore-Books Thank you for letting me know

Your English is fabulous. I’d have to be a jerk to pull it apart … As a native speaker I can tell you’re not native- but I can understand every nuance in your writing.

@@robmcd Woah.. Do you know how much your reply means to me?! Thank you very much! I'm working on my English and even though it's impossible, I'll work hard to make my English indistinguishable from that of a native.

@@strivingforsuccess88 first step; indistinguishable isn’t a very common word haha. Just say “like”

@@robmcd thanks! I'm still in school so I try to use words that are "not common" for my essays, speeches, etc.

@@strivingforsuccess88 those words can still be good though. They make you sound smart haha

I have been reading in bed since I was little and if I ever struggle to get to sleep, I know a few chapters of a novel will get me in the zone.

Agreed, I've been reading Tropic of Cancer except I like to pretend the character Van Norden is like a Bailey Jay, mite write my own book think I'll call it "Beyond the Valley of Penises"World is crazy now, only way I keep my sanity is by googling Bailey Jay or Annabelle Lane and emptying the glue gun, do it once a week my way of treating myself

My lamp light gives the most warm, comforting, relaxing light on my book when I read in bed. Reading in bed right before bed is honestly one of the best things in the universe

Thanks so much Kate!

Yay, thank you!

yess me too, i think that really helps. hey btw, i recently started my own channel where i talk a lot about well-being and self growth, if u wanna check it out☺️

OMG thank youuuu

Welcome :)

That was me for a long time

couldn’t agree more! hey btw, i recently started my own channel where i talk a lot about well-being and self growth, if u wanna check it out

thanks Marie :)

cool thank u for the tip 😊

@@HannahMarieee you're most welcome 😊

yea I feel like these tips are mostly for nonfiction books. Also I feel that fiction readers will kind of always read more because we read in series where the typical number is three but then you have series with twelve books or maybe there are just four but each has 700 pages. Which isnt the standard in the non fiction books :D.

I'm a fiction reader and I choose to read 1 book at a time. I tried reading two books at the same time but, it made me confused. Lol. I sometimes forget what happened and sometimes confuse the characters with each other 🤣

haha right i love that pace too!