[gcao]

IMHO, the best way to improve reading speed is to read more and more. Once you know more words and can tell their meanings in shorter time, you read faster. There is a chinese idiom for it: 熟能生巧

[harbud]

Thanks! Although over time I've also come to accept that I will never be near as fast as the natives (or people who learn to read from when they were a child).