Jay Parini: Even if you want to be a good reader, don't speed read fiction. He says that nonfiction is not always written by the best writers. People remember about 10% of what they hear and 20% of what she reads in the first hour or so after reading something. In the long run, he says, unless you remind yourself every day of what you read, what you remember from a book sharply declines.

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