Skimming vs. Reading

A very interesting article, with references to research I hadn't heard about before. One of my favorite books on reading, which deserves to be read slowly enough to comprehend everything the author is saying, is Reading in the Brain by Stanislas Dehaene.

http://readinginthebrain.pagesperso-orange.fr/intro.htm

What any Hacker News participant can do to get a check on appropriate reading speed for one kind of book or article or another is to test comprehension after reading, by having a friend ask questions about what you just read. Here on Hacker News, we sometimes test one another's comprehension as we discuss articles in comment threads. Many HN participants admit frankly that they skip or skim most of what is posted here, but many other HN participants help out a lot of fellow participants by their close reading of submitted articles or the comments of other participants.