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I learned to read age 5 and haven't stopped since. My mother fought me through childhood up to Uni so that I would turn off the light at night (I remember reading with a pocket lamp under covers). Now I'm retired, I still tend to read during the night, but when I start to sleep on my feet during the day, I read books interesting enough, but fragmentary enough to be able to drop them and go to sleep, poetry for instance. I also read queuing, on the go, in waiting rooms, and now I'm retired, during the day sometimes.
I do tend to spend a lot of time in front of my PC though, and I do have outside commitments and meetings with friends and family. And I never counted books read - it doesn't make sense to me, every book is different, and I always read several books simultaneously. When I've binge read an author or a genre, I need to change genres, that's when I read serious books.
And I don't agree that one doesn't need to read fiction slowly, it all depends on the book: some prose demands to be savored, just like a good meal (I like cooking for others).
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