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by zaptheimpaler 1465 days ago
Reminds me of reading math textbooks in college. That text tends to be incredibly information dense, so I would spend minutes reading just one or two pages. One of my friends who tried to read them like they were any other book would get frustrated and stop.

The idea of reading at a given speed seems wonky to me as well. Its all about information density and how deeply you need to understand something imo. I read light fiction pretty quick, non fiction slower, technical stuff much slower etc