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It depends on the book, author and thus writing style. I'm much slower with classical Victorian fiction than I am with pulp fantasy Dungeons and Dragons shared world books.
For a normal modern fantasy book that is not too extreme with regard to character and location counts and uses normal(ish) names (I'm looking at YOU, Tad Williams...) I average 30 pages per hour according to my e-reader.
However, I've been using the Page Count plugin for ages, with my own settings. I counted the number of characters per page in 5 paperbacks, 5 trade paperbacks, and 5 hardcovers (back when I still had many paper books) and used the average as characters/page in the Page Count plugin. It turns out that one of "my pages" is about 1.5x longer than a normal paperback page.
I read a "300 page book" (my page count) in about 10 hours, and those books are normally ~450 pages, give or take 30 pages, as a paperback.
So you could say that my "average cruising speed" for modern paperback fantasy books is about 45 pages/hour; some books I read a bit slower, some books I read a bit faster.
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