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How can/could Elon Musk read two books a day?

• zer0tonin 9y ago
  Turning the pages of two books a day isn't hard.
• arkh 9y ago
  Lot of technical books are short. 150ish pages. And the more you read the faster you get: you don't decipher every word. You notice a standard structure and get the meaning. That's why reading things written by a foreigner can be slower. And honestly after some time you learn to not read useless paragraphs: read the first, read the last, if it is mainly the same thing you can forget about what's in-between. The worst offender is LotR: song? Pass; character description? Pass 5 pages.
• a_imho 9y ago
  Reading 2 average length books a day is certainly feasible and doing that for years paints the picture of a exceptionally committed reader. While I don't know much about Elon Musk's reading habits, outlandish sounding unfalsifiable claims are sometimes just that.