I question whenever people make claims about reading fast and it's worse when comparisons kick in. I think "fast" doesn't work as a quantitative measure as there are so many factors affecting it and it's even worse as a qualitative measure. I'd like to read faster, but just faster than me, because of the more books consideration. Everyone else's speed is both meaningless in itself unless I know they're reading the same books and have the same amount of reading time as I do, and it's still irrelevant to my experience
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It seems to me that those who read the fastest are least concerned with making a statement about it. Because, who cares?
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