We live in the age of skimming. Most people don’t read anymore—they scan. Eyes dart across screens at 400–600 words per minute, extracting headlines, keywords, and the occasional sentence that survives the dopamine filter.
But there is something almost devotional about reading slowly. When you let a sentence sit, when you re-read a paragraph not because you didn’t understand it, but because you wanted to feel it again—that’s when the real conversation begins.
“The book must be read as slowly as it was written.” — Susan Sontag
Try it sometime. Pick up a physical book. Turn off notifications. Read one page as if it were the only