Recently I read some pages of a book i bought some time ago (読むだけですっきりわかる日本史) and despite having a bunch of words I don't know in each page I can still somehow understand that page without searching most of them, as with the context of what it is being told is often enough to guess the meaning, also, it mention historical terms and then explain in simple words it meaning.
For example, 青銅器時代 for the bronze age, I didn't needed any search for knowing what it was refering, but I was not 100% sure of how to read it just for the kanji (as I've mostly practice kanji with vocabulary and by reading).
Some time ago, when I started reading books in english something similar happened to me, and I learned a bunch of vocab without needing to search in a dictionary. However in japanese that seems much more hard specially if you are not strong in kanji and it's reading.
Obviously I could search most of those words but that will slow down my reading, and I also think that it is good to minimize dictionary searches as understanding a text without much help is a good skill by itself in my opinion.
I was wondering if some of you have had this dilema before, and how do you approached it. I know it is somehow related to that 多読 thing.
by AnywhereMoist1908