Sorry, too early in the day to come up with one of my 'novelty headings'!

I started thinking about this while reading responses to my thread on 'biographies'.
clunkhere

I first noticed an odd phenomenon when I was quite young. I could read something that really interested me so fast that it seemed to my parents that I was just 'skimming'. When it came to school texts though, I was virtually 'dyslexic', having to re-read sentences and even phrases several times just to keep the 'plot' straight. needless to say it resulted in some odd (and parent troubling) situations. Constant failing grades in subjects like history, literature and Geography... but with literally hundreds of books read at home dealing with those very subjects.

It's even more pronounced today. A musician's biography, a book on politics, or for that matter ANYTHING that really interests me, gets read at one sitting....and fully absorbed, while I struggle over a three page manual on how to make my mini-disc player work....and then forget it entirely!

I've often wondered if it's simply self-indulgence taken to an extreme, or there really is some kind of 'condition' involved. A really current example is the Newspaper. I can't wait to grab it in the morning, and can go cover to cover in about ten minutes, while Heather (who's not a slow reader) is still on page three.

Just curious about anyone else's reading experience.

Rick