My reading speed has always been roughly 60 pages per hour for fiction, slower for dense non-fiction or poetry. I've thought about whether to try to improve this and concluded that I don't want to. Reading faster would mean reading with less attention, and the things I read for require attention.

The people I know who read 100+ books a year fascinate me. Some of them are clearly getting a lot from the books they read — they have rich memories of characters and ideas, they're genuinely enthusiastic. Others seem to be tracking a score rather than having an experience. The number of books read is not a measure of anything except itself.

What I try to track instead: did I read something that changed how I thought about something? Did I read something that made me feel like I understood a person or a situation better? These are harder to quantify. They're what I'm actually after.