A revolution in reading

Well okay, not quite a revolution, but for my first blog I thought I’d talk about a subject heavily involved in blogging - reading. We all spend hours and hours a day reading but how much do we take it in?

This blogging site is dedicated to new stuff and while reading can hardly be called new, I think reading slower and appreciating it is. Personally I read very fast and I think I’m missing something. I have to turn back pages in books as I realise a new character was introduced and I didn’t pay enough attention. However today it really hit home. I read this article (no, I couldn’t find the video either, but I’ll have another look for it I promise): http://tinyurl.com/e7rrs

There’s a quote on the article that says:

“The sooner these websites are taken to account over the availability of such videos the better.”

FromApesToMen, Manchester

Now replace the word “availability” with “quality”. That’s how I read it. I thought ‘FromApesToMen’ was complaining he couldn’t see enough action. And worse, reading about Steve Irwin’s funeral today, I thought I read that he was being “fed to crocodiles” when it actually said the funeral will be held “where he fed crocodiles”.

So the moral is to take some time, read a bit slower and appreciate what someone else has written just for you. And millions of others probably, but in my case, just for you. No morals next time I promise. But you better be reading carefully, there’ll be a test at the end.

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