Crojo wrote:I used to think that 'extensive reading' meant reading quickly, and that slowing down made it 'intensive reading'.
Speedreading can only be extensive, but extensive reading doesn't have to be fast. You can be slow because you are thinking about your next meal, the weather or whatever enters your mind because of the things you read about.
And 'intensive reading' can't be fast, but it's the intention of squeezing the last drop of information out of a text that makes it intensive, not the slowness in itself - the lack of speed is just the result of trying to understand everything.
But at the end of the day (and even before) 'extensive reading' is almost inevitably faster than 'intensive reading'