Well I was just pondering when I thought how fast do people read books. I read the cradle series last month in under 13 days. Constantly binge reading it. I have alot of time so it didn’t seem a big deal. Then I remembered in 2019 when I first picked up WoT I followed many people who were reading for the first time or reading it and I discovered it took most of them a year or so and I read it in under 4 Months. That time I was doing my last year in college and had many exams.
If I don’t take breaks, I can get through a hundred pages an hour max if the book is gripping enough or not very dense. It took me a week to get through David Graeber’s Debt compared to the 16 hours it took me to read The Priory of the Orange Tree. I’d get through a quarter to half a chapter of Debt a day because I’d have to think about what was written and do some Wiki research, and meanwhile, I only stopped reading Priory to sleep and do housework.