I do read extremely fast but never fictional books... always non-fiction (biographies, politics, history, military etc...). Lately though I've been wondering whether I actually take in any of these facts... Since finding out I had aphantasia (aged early 50s!) it has explained a lot about my character traits. Recently I have tried to challenge this "never fiction" book reading - as a child I really enjoyed Enid Blyton etc...) - and so tried, ever so hard and slowly, to digest The Brothers Karamazov, even with YouTube book guides etc... and yet I can barely remember the various characters. With no minds eye, I think my head is full (up?) of words... just words.

Not sure if you’ll see this after all this time but yes—I’m pretty sure aphantasia is why I read absurdly fast.

I do read extremely fast but never fictional books... always non-fiction (biographies, politics, history, military etc...). Lately though I've been wondering whether I actually take in any of these facts... Since finding out I had aphantasia (aged early 50s!) it has explained a lot about my character traits. Recently I have tried to challenge this "never fiction" book reading - as a child I really enjoyed Enid Blyton etc...) - and so tried, ever so hard and slowly, to digest The Brothers Karamazov, even with YouTube book guides etc... and yet I can barely remember the various characters. With no minds eye, I think my head is full (up?) of words... just words.

Not sure if you’ll see this after all this time but yes—I’m pretty sure aphantasia is why I read absurdly fast.