I'm not sure how bad the problem is in other fields though. I subscribe to a daily arXiv search alert covering physics.comp-ph and physics.flu-dyn, as well as a

I'm not sure how bad the problem is in other fields though. I subscribe to a daily arXiv search alert covering physics.comp-ph and physics.flu-dyn, as well as any cross-posts to these. It averages ~20 titles and abstracts per day. I skim the titles, and if the title looks interesting I read the abstract, and if the abstract is interesting I open the full link in a background tab. This takes three minutes each morning, plus the time it takes to read any full papers where I found the abstract interesting, which is typically 2-3 papers a week. By now I've learned to read papers quickly and save them in a filename system for future reference.