[LudwigNagasena]

Now imagine reading papers is your job and you try to skim through dozens of wannabe stand up comedians each day.

[etiam]

As opposed to wannabe tax lawyers? I'll take the comedians thank you very much.

[6gvONxR4sf7o]

Is dozens of papers per day how academics work? Holy crap.

[throwlaplace]

Notice the word skim. Yes when I'm trying to figure something out I often have 10 tabs with papers open and I'm flipping between them.

[darkmighty]

Depends. If the paper is dense you're taking hours per paper, rereading many times and rederiving details. You can skim through many you don't want to dive deeply though (if it's a topic you just need a feel for).