The Sounds of Reading

[ashling]

http://bookriot.com/2013/08/01/the-sounds-of-reading/

The most common thing people said happens in their heads when reading is that they hear a voice. It’s there own voice, reading the book, and it’s the equivalent of the method and speed of you reading out loud…but internally. An internal rather than external voice.

There were other responses, too. Some people told me that they wind up mentally assigning a host of voices to all of the lines of dialog and bits of narration, until the inside of their heads are nearly full-cast audiobooks all by themselves. A few other people told me that they didn’t read the story internally, per se, but they did wind up mentally converting it almost into a movie of sorts.

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So, DU: How do you read?

[csziggy]

1. I'm a "visual" reader - converting the words to images in my mind

While I can enjoy books that have dialects, reading them slows me down immensely and prevents me from creating the visualization of the landscape of the book in my imagination. That's why, although I enjoyed reading Mark Twain, I haven't re-read any of his books, for instance.

ETA - it's also why I don't enjoy poetry.

[LWolf]

2. I visualize, but I also hear.

A book is like an IMAX in my head.

[LeftofObama]

3. I'm a visual reader as well.

It's one of the reasons I love Steinbeck so much. Every time I re-read one of his books it's just like being there.

[RebelOne]

4. It’s there own voice??

When I am reading and see errors like that, I hear an internal voice screaming in my head.