Its a very different kind of "reading". Condensing 50 pages into about 7. I can read papers in my field fairly well because I have understanding of the ideas bu

Its a very different kind of "reading". Condensing 50 pages into about 7. I can read papers in my field fairly well because I have understanding of the ideas but it takes me hours to read a single paper from outside my field. This, and I cant stress this enough, is a good thing. You've probably complained that people spend way too much time waffling nonsense instead of simply writing the ingredients in cooking recipies. Scientific papers ARE the list of ingredients without anything else. If you feel like they missed three steps, go back and actually read it, bit by bit. Read the prior art if youre really confused. You simply cannot skim read them, each sentence is important.