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Back when I still read paper books, I'd read an average of 60 pages an hour (in English), give or take a dozen depending on page and font size.
I read ~2-3 hours every evening. I don't watch TV at all and I rarely go out in the evenings, so getting 2-3 hours of reading time in isn't all that difficult.
Most of the books I read fall in the 350-500 page category and they tend to be fairly easy reading (I read literary fiction and classics when I was much younger and it wasn't so taxing; after 8-12 hour days of technical translation, I want to read easy fiction as that's all I have energy left over for), so I average a book every 2-4 days.
With about ten books (or more) a month, 120 books a year isn't at all difficult to manage - and no, I don't do it on my employer's time (I work from home so my time is my own anyway, and I get paid by number of words translated, so if I do sometimes spend some time reading also during the day on slow days, I'm not cheating anyone out of anything; those days are few and far in-between though and most of the time I don't get around to reading until 7-8 pm).
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