Be conscious while moving through material and recognizing when to skim through. Avoid pedantically reading every word, or the dogmatic approach of "finishing what you started". Adjust your rhythm to match your interest.
Choosing to 'skip over parts' is reading because reflects a choice about is being processed.
If I've absorbed a point through my own lived experience or heard of it in another context, I'm still "reading" the idea as I recognize it well enough to skip over.
Cultural or self-inflicted frowning upon 'screens causing us to skim rather than read' creates pressure to do things 'properly', but the standard is not relevant: set your own objectives and make your own meaning.
See also
- Responsive mindset
- [[antilibrary]]