Interestingly enough, silent reading was historically uncommon due to the fact that literature was less common than it is now and, most importantly, the lack of separation between words.
The ability to read silently was considered very unusual.
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prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week agoHow does one read books without reading them out loud? Is that not a form of internal monologue?
galanthus@lemmy.world 1 week ago
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
The words have no sound. No volume, no pitch. They’re word ideas not words. I don’t hear anything, I just understand the words.
galanthus@lemmy.world 1 week ago
And what happens when you read a description of something? Do you just have an idea of what it is, because if so, it seems to me that some of the value of literature will be lost. Do you actually feel anything when you read a description of something beautiful, for instance?
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
No, I don’t get a sense of awe or beauty from reading things. I can appreciate when the folks I’m reading about experience those emotions, but I don’t feel them, because there is nothing to inspire them in me.
Which is why I tend to prefer books that go in to more depth about what people are thinking and feeling than books that go in to lots of visual detail