[zeteo]

"When you’re given a reading assignment, for example, you can estimate, within 10 – 20 minutes, how long it will take you to complete."

As long as it's not a scientific paper...

[wwortiz]

Or a bad engineering textbook, god I hate Wiley publishing.

[fuzzmeister]

The same applies to any kind of reading with a deeper philosophical underpinning. Reading the words in no way means you truly understand what's being said.