Incanus
Auror
Basically, I never skim anything when I read. I think the closest I come to that is when I occasionally speed up a bit.
So I have a question for people who do skim read. If you skim over something–say a description–how do you KNOW for sure if that is what you skimmed or skipped, not having actually read it? If the passage had something else in it, how would you know that?
I ask because I honestly don’t understand (and I hope I don’t sound troll-ish). I don’t fast-forward through portions of a movie. I don’t fast-forward through a portion of a song. I don’t cover up a section of a painting I’m looking at. And for the exact same reason, I don’t skim over any of the text of a story.
There must be more to this whole skimming thing that I’m not getting.
So I have a question for people who do skim read. If you skim over something–say a description–how do you KNOW for sure if that is what you skimmed or skipped, not having actually read it? If the passage had something else in it, how would you know that?
I ask because I honestly don’t understand (and I hope I don’t sound troll-ish). I don’t fast-forward through portions of a movie. I don’t fast-forward through a portion of a song. I don’t cover up a section of a painting I’m looking at. And for the exact same reason, I don’t skim over any of the text of a story.
There must be more to this whole skimming thing that I’m not getting.