I'm a slow reader myself. Reading fiction I'm slow. Reading non-fiction I'm very very very slow. I can type faster than I can read. I can read blog posts and ne

I'm a slow reader myself. Reading fiction I'm slow. Reading non-fiction I'm very very very slow. I can type faster than I can read. I can read blog posts and news articles fairly quickly. I found in college that against other students using fashionable speed reading techniques I completely beat them academically. The speed reading didn't pick up on subtle ideas and wasn't able to capture complex ones. I have a relative who is a natural speed reader and who has perfect recall. I realize this is a controversial claim as perfect recall (sometimes called photographic memory) is a myth. It's not a myth more likely extremely rare. I could give her a book around 300 pages she had never seen before. She would read it in about 15 minutes. I then could ask questions about the book and she would answer by exactly quoting sections and citing the page number. So... was this helpful? Well she never went to college or did anything with her life. It was just a weird thing she could do naturally which she didn't exploit except to read and remember precisely absolutely vast numbers of books.