Coming from a research background I can totally understand your feeling. Once you have read enough of those papers, you start to kind of skim through them more

Coming from a research background I can totally understand your feeling. Once you have read enough of those papers, you start to kind of skim through them more easily. Unfortunately, quality of papers and their readability highly depend on the skill of the author. There are some papers which are easy and entertaining to read because of the writing skill and effort put into it. Many though are not nice at all. Here is an entertaining but serious one... http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/cocaine.pdf http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/cocaine.pdf