Comment by commandersaki

Ouch the bit about being illiterate hits hard. I've always struggled to read literature that uses highly intricate, complex, or archaic English. I also struggle reading books cover to cover. I also had a disability throughout uni which made it difficult to read for extended periods of time, so I learned to be effective at skimming things. But as I matured as a student, I took the time to really understand prose, especially technical and mathematical jargon as that was pretty important. I read a lot of academic papers and dense books on theory and improved my comprehension skills. But today I still find reading a lot of books end to end is difficult and hard to make time. For awhile I was listening to audiobooks and that helped a lot and it helps ingest content but I feel I'm missing out on learning specific prose or vocabulary. Basically something I really need to improve on.