# 🦮 How to Quickly Read a Text - [[Interleave boring stuff with interesting stuff]]. - Audiobooks - Practice [[🦮 How to Study|Active Recall]] while you read. Every few paragraphs or so, stop and ask yourself: What did I just read? What was it about? How does it relate to what came before? Then check to see if you're right. It will take longer to read, but we'll also develop a much deeper understanding of the material and it will still take less time than [[🔑 Highlighting, rereading, and cramming are almost useless|Rereading]]. - Taking [[💡 Literature Notes]] is paramount! [[🔑 If we aren't taking notes we're wasting our time]]. - Speedreading turns off Subvocalization, but Subvocalization makes processing what you read easier and speedreading is exhausting. Increase and decrease Subvocalization depending on the complexity and density of the text. Group words by relaxing your eyes while you read so that you can see a few more words at once. It shuts off Subvocalization because you can't subvocalize two words at once. Your eyes move slower, but you read faster. [^1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1k4eXELEIE