468 for the first one, but I had some IM’s buzzing in the background that threw me off. Not to make excuses or anything.
478, but man, on a 21" monitor it’s almost impossible to read that stuff fast! It’s so wide I had to scoot my chair back several feet just so that I wouldn’t have to move my head back and forth!
1,443 to 1,129. The “exercises” only served to give me a freaking headache. I mean–OW! I could follow the Wizard of Oz at 2,500, though.
Now, I’m fairly sure that I don’t normally read that quickly–I don’t like reading that fast. It’s no fun. Though that is how I do my class readings. Mostly, though, I think that books should last for a long, long time. When I’m reading something that I’m really into, I read more slowly; I like to escape, and imagine what’s going on, and I’ll take a few minutes sometimes to just think about what’s going on. It’s great fun.
Of course, I just bought Cryptonomicon, so I should be set for a while.