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 ge

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.