What is the point of reading fast? It degrades the value you get out of it. Might as well just read some notes or reviews or summaries written by other people.

What is the point of reading fast? It degrades the value you get out of it. Might as well just read some notes or reviews or summaries written by other people. Obviously reading fast is better than reading slow, but if you're going to read faster than you can think / process the content, I don't think that's useful.