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I'm quite amused by the implication in a few posts that it's abnormal to consume large amounts of reading materials in a given time frame, or to read the entire thing. While I do have OCD tendencies, that's mostly restricted to organizing my ebooks; it doesn't really come into play while reading them. Once I start a book, I read the words as they come. It's not a conscious effort to hit every single word, it just flows that way. I rarely feel the urge to skim unless it's non-fiction reading purely for information, but in those cases I'm not really intending to read the entire thing anyway.
I can easily read as many as a few hundred pages on a non-work day, and there were a few periods this year when I was reading more than a novel each day. I'm not consistent in that regard, however. Sometimes I'll go a month with hardly any reading.
Reading is just like anything else - it requires more effort from some people than others. That doesn't mean that there's anything "wrong" with readers at either end of the effort spectrum.
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