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This might be controversial, but if you’re skimming books, you didn’t read it. You missed the whole point of READING if you didn’t take in every word start to finish.
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Anonymous 10w

I can’t believe this is a controversial opinion

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Anonymous 10w

What are you the reading police

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Anonymous 10w

i dont read fr then. if its endless descriptions for 2-3 pages im skimming tf out of it. i definitely dont take in EVERY word from start to finish. no less than 96%, but def not 100%

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Anonymous 10w

My favorite is when a paragraph is soooo good I have to read it like 2 more times

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Anonymous 10w

I’ve never heard anyone say skimming is reading 😭

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Anonymous 10w

hard disagree. books belong to their readers, you can engage with as much or as little of it as you want. I read fiction in my downtime but I mostly read non fiction research and anyone can tell you there’s sort of a specific order: title, abstract, conclusion, discussion / methods, and then maybe the actual bulk of the paper if you want to chase citations. Different communities have different standards on what counts as having “read” something.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 10w

oh I didn’t precess the whole post, and yeah I’m reading a part of my book RIGHT NOW that had a bunch of miscellaneous descriptions that seem like they were made to be useless and boring. sorry if that doesn’t count as “fully reading” the book, idgaf

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 10w

That makes sense, I haven’t really read a ton of books w unnecessary amounts of descriptions. It was more abt booktok people saying they skim whole books and read 100+ books per year

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 10w

it’s fine that this is how you want to define having read something, but that’s just not a community to which I belong. most years I read dracula as it unfolds (the book takes place from may 3rd to november 7th), there are some passages i always skip over or skim. I think i have read the book. Same with tolkien, there’s some long descriptions i will sometimes just skip entirely (this is due to him rewriting the book so many times there’s a fun history there)

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 10w

To be fair, you are in the “Book Club” community which is Yakboard dominated by conversation around modern and classic fiction novels. I doubt this post was meant to address research reading

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 10w

you missed the point, that was an example to illustrate that i disagree with the premise that “reading isn’t reading unless you take in every word from start to finish.” I think this is an absurdly high bar

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