Problematic readers often described their reading process asskimming and/or relying on SparkNotes
Attention seems to be a problem here. Novels are nothing to be skimmed (okay that is very much my bias).
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- Jul 2025
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muse.jhu.edu muse.jhu.edu
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- Oct 2023
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www.brookings.edu www.brookings.edu
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They find that exposing populations to lead in their drinking water causes much higher homicide rates 20 years later, relative to similar places where kids avoided such exposure. They find that exposing populations to lead in their drinking water causes much higher homicide rates 20 years later, relative to similar places where kids avoided such exposure.
Example of the repetition of the body text of an article immediately after it as a featured pull quote to draw the attention of the skimming reader to the importance of the portion of the passage.
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- Nov 2022
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delong.typepad.com delong.typepad.com
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Systematic skimming, in other words,anticipates the comprehension of a book's structure.
also includes opening oneself up to open questions one might either ask themselves or those which the author proposes.
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Of course, if theblurb is nothing but a puff for the book, you will ordinarily beable to discover this at a glance. But that in itself can tell yousomething about the work. Perhaps the book does not sayanything of importance-and that is why the blurb does notsay anything, either.
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Skimming or pre-reading is thefirst sublevel of inspectional reading.
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- Sep 2021
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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Skimming through pages, the foremost feature of the codex, remains impossible in digital books.
This is related to an idea that Tom Critchlow was trying to get at a bit the other day. It would definitely be interesting in this sort of setting.
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Has anyone built a generalizable text zoom JavaScript library that let's you progressively summarize an article as you zoom in and out?<br><br>(Why yes I am procrastinating my to-do list. You?)
— Tom Critchlow (@tomcritchlow) September 17, 2021
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- Jul 2019
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www.understood.org www.understood.org
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In Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World, Maryanne Wolf talks about how technology has led to more skimming rather than reading slowly and carefully. She talks about the benefits of “cognitive patience.” And she reminds us that reading quickly isn’t what makes someone a good reader.
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