OK,

My reading speed is fast too but how much of the Bible do you really
understand, never mind absorb, reading at that pace?

OK, how much do I understand/absorb reading slowly?

What I'm really asking, I suppose, is:  "Is there any point at reading it
through at that speed anyway?"


--
Carol



----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 5:36 AM
Subject: Attention Matt


> Matt and others,
>
> I ran across the following information I recorded when I first got my
> talking Bible when they were called Road Runners.  I used the perfect Paul
> setting and cranked the speed up as fast as it would go.  I thought you
> might find these time totals of use.
>
> Old Testament Total:  23 hours 9 minutes 3 seconds.
> New Testament:  6 hours 21 minutes 59 seconds.
> Total bible:  29 hours 31 minutes 2 seconds.
> Genesis:  79 minutes 6 seconds.
> Exodus:  66 minutes 2 seconds.
> Leviticus:  48 minutes 49 seconds.
> Numbers:  67 minutes 31 seconds.
> Deuteronomy:  55 minutes 17 seconds.
> Joshua:  38 minutes 11 seconds.
> Judges:  38 minutes 45 seconds.
> Ruth:  5 minutes 10 seconds.
> First Samuel:  51 minutes 21 seconds.
> Second Samuel:  42 minutes 37 seconds.
> first Kings 50 minutes 4 seconds.
> Second Kings:  47 minutes 34 seconds.
> First Chronicles:  44 minutes 16 seconds.
> Second Chronicles:  53 minutes 43 seconds.
> Ezra:  15 minutes 25 seconds.
> Nehemiah:  22 minutes 4 seconds.
> Esther:  11 minutes.  24 seconds.
> Job:  39 minutes 0 seconds.
> Psalms:  93 minutes 16 seconds.
> Proverbs:  32 minutes 35 seconds.
> Ecclesiastes:  11 minutes 15 seconds.
> Song Of Solomon:  5 minutes 37 seconds.
> Isaiah:  76 minutes 4 seconds.
> Jeremiah:  86 minutes 30 seconds.
> Lamentations:  7 minutes 15 seconds.
> Ezekiel:  78 minutes 34 seconds.
> Daniel:  24 minutes 2 seconds.
> Hosea:  10 minutes 46 seconds.
> Joel:  4 minutes 11 seconds.
> Amos:  8 minutes 33 seconds.
> Obadiah:  1 minute 23 seconds.
> Jonah:  2 minutes 43 seconds.
> Mica:  6 minutes 22 seconds.
> Nahum:  2 minutes 42 seconds.
> Habakkuk:  3 minutes 8 seconds.
> Zephaniah:  3 minutes 17 seconds.
> Haggai:  2 minutes 15 seconds.
> Zechariah:  12 minutes 43 seconds.
> Malchi:  3 minutes 40 seconds.
> Matthew:  50 minutes 20 seconds.
> Mark:  31 minutes 57 seconds.
> Luke:  54 minutes 10 seconds.
> John:  40 minutes 18 seconds.
> Acts:  51 minutes 18 seconds.
> Romans:  20 minutes 30 seconds.
> First Corinthians:  20 minutes 1 second.
> Second Corinthians:  12 minutes 55 seconds.
> Galatians:  6 minutes 40 seconds.
> Ephesians:  6 minutes 23 seconds.
> Philippians:  4 minutes 39 seconds.
> Colossians:  4 minutes 14 seconds.
> First Thessalonians:  3 minutes 55 seconds.
> Second Thessalonians:  2 minutes 12 seconds.
> First Timothy:  5 minutes 9 seconds.
> Second Timothy:  3 minutes 43 seconds.
> Titus:  2 minutes 6 seconds.
> Philemon:  57 seconds.
> Hebrews:  14 minutes 46 seconds.
> James:  4 minutes 59 seconds.
> First Peter 5 minutes 26 seconds.
> Second Peter:  3 minutes 20 seconds.
> First John:  5 minutes 15 seconds.
> Second John:  40 seconds.
> Third John:  41 seconds.
> Jude:  1 minutes 25 seconds.
> Revelation:  24 minutes 0 seconds.
>