An interesting article out of the UK talks about how you can’t retain what you read if you speed read literature. Read the article here.

I hate doing this. In graduate school many times I was forced to speed read works. Reading textbooks or articles on the fly is fine with me, but when it comes to literature, I like to slow down. Most of the time when in a rush, I speed read the literary work, but come back to it later.

Leo Tolstoy