In If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Calvino, a student describes how she “reads” by feeding the text of a novel into a computer and having it spit out a count of how often each word appears. Ignoring the articles and prepositions, she finds the most common words
Personally, I read a bunch of classics in high register in college. I guess it was fun. I recently ChatGPT'd Aristotle into readable English, finished it around 5x as fast as a translation, and felt I got the main gist of things. idk does the pain incurred actually teach much?