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[proximoception]

I've been finding that switching to reading aloud helps me get through tedious books - I switch back to silent, faster reading once something draws me in again, then back aloud at the next impasse and so forth. I don't know if it's just variation that helps or if there's something savingly mechanical about speaking the text, but it works. For fiction, anyway. With non- that's arguing rather than recounting something I either have to be interested or I'm out. No idea what to do about that.

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[grashupfer.livejournal.com]

Very true for me, too, with audio books. The audio book makes Tolkien astounding whereas the print version puts me to sleep.

[mendaciloquent.livejournal.com]

I never read aloud. My only attempt came out of boredom when trying to put the baby to sleep; I tried reading Kagan's The Archidamian War. He endured this for about 10 minutes before simply informing me, "no." Oh well.