INFPs: What is your reading style?

[Traigo]

Originally Posted by Kaipa

Is there an "INFP" reading style?

Do you read slowly or fast? Do you feel like you need to read every word, or just get the general idea and skip a few sentences here and there? Do you finish all books you start reaingd? Do you finish even most books that you start to read? Do you start one book at a time or twelve books at a time? Do you compulsively take notes when reading, are your books perhaps filled with little notes and scribblings in the marginal, or do you just read without bothering to take notes?

Myself, I read rather slowly-- usually it takes me from one week to a few months to finish a book, but sometimes, when I'm really obsessed over a book, I can finish it in less than a week, depending on the length of the book. I finish but a small amount of the books that I start. Most of my books are filled with scribblings in the marginal, little hearts next to my favourite sentences, words and concepts that have come to my mind when reading the book. Do other INFPs do this stuff?

Please, tell me everything that comes to your mind about your reading habits!

Depends on the book...some books I skim large sections because I can guess what happens or the story is draggig ass, other books (s. ing, JK rowling) I make sure to slow down to read every single word so that I don't miss any of the experience.

[fiasco]

Do you read slowly or fast?
If I'm enjoying it, slowly. I love to reflect, so I like to read slowly enough that everything resonates. Memoirs, poetry and novels are examples. I don't read on a slow basis though, if that's what you mean. I can burn right through a book if it's something I like.

Do you feel like you need to read every word, or just get the general idea and skip a few sentences here and there?
If it's a wall of dry text, I will scan for the general idea and leave it at that. If it's something I like, I want to take in every word.

Do you finish all books you start reading? Do you finish even most books that you start to read?
I don't know?

Do you start one book at a time or twelve books at a time?
Don't know about this, either. It all depends.

Do you compulsively take notes when reading, are your books perhaps filled with little notes and scribblings in the marginal, or do you just read without bothering to take notes?
I have a really great memory for things I think are important, so I don't have to take notes.

[AJay]

If its a good book I'll read pretty quickly and at the same time cling to every world and in my head I'll be visualizing the scene in the book very clearly, as if I were there.

I've tested at being able to read 600 words a minute (400 higher than average) but I don't read quite that fast when enjoying a good fictional book (more like 400wpm then).

[Miraji]

i have a focusing problems while reading, because i will start daydreaming while reading a book or anything else, that i lose track of what i was reading originally then i have to go back and read them again, yet in the same if i am into a book i will sleep and woke up reading it until its finished (i love Alexander Dumas novel the Count of Mount Cristo and i spent a whole month of literary doing nothing other than reading the novel and just changing my position from time to time lol), in the same time my mood will change accordingly to the characters mood in the book (i was reading 100 years of solitude and will really get into depression moments accordingly to what the characters will have, as well when i was reading one of his books about Simon Bolivar i was depressed and feeling down for a whole day because of that book)