Depends on the book, if the story and writing interests you.
The wording
Translation quality or what language you are reading the book in. I can read a book written in Swedish much faster than a book in German or English, but Russian is even faster.

Can vary from 2 pages per minute to 1 page in 5 minutes or even longer (when reading philosophy)

I read slightly below average and it doesn't bother me so much as the techniques and barriers you have to go through if you want to increase your reading speed and comprehension.

Well during the 80-s (soviet times BOOOO!) when I started going to school we were taught fast reading and different techniques (also that darned calligraphy). I still read diagonally through the pages and quickly re-read the sentences that interest me more.

I read around 70 pages per hour (as I remeber), but since I graduated and work I don't have time to... And, well, that speed depends on how interesting is the book haha.

I had read Hobbit and Lord of the rings books in 1 week. But it took me 3 weeks to read silmarilion alone. I believe if the writing style is good and the article is appealing then you read quicker. But if it is badly written (Silmarilions Turkish translation was horrible) then you pay extra attention to words so it slows you down.

Ha, I had the same problem but it wasn't my reading speed, I couldn't -write- that fast. If it's for school you don't have to actually read the whole novel. In my final gymnasium exams for French class, I was interrogated for 15 minutes (in French) about Candide ou l'optimisme by Voltaire - a book which I hadn't actually read in full at the time. We read parts of it in class and I got hold of a summary somewhere, this was before Wikipedia & Co btw.

If you put yourself under pressure to read fast, not much will be committed to your memory so I recommend either taking the time to read it slowly no matter how long it takes, and if you're under time pressure for a test than read a couple summaries. You won't pass with flying colors but I employed this system well enough to pass classes without having them cut into my gaming time. Back then, gaming was more important to me than school. If class and grades are more important to you then I don't recommend cutting corners though.

Speaking of reading fast, I think "DODGE" is the perfect thing to put on the front of a truck.

This one gets it.

Would you fucking people slow down with the typing!

I'm still on Post #6.

Always depends on the book.

Europe Central for example wil make you work your ass off to get through a page.

Game of Thrones on the other hand will be easy enough and I'l breeze through most chapters.

Besides speed is irrelavant if you can't retain the information.
What do yout type, a word a minute?

Depends of the content too. Agatha Christine might go faster than Spinoza. Average reader reads 1 page/minute, so, around 3-4 hours of actual reading should take you.

You can do some speed reading exercises if you feel that you are reading slower than you would like. What you want to do is to read lines as fast as you can, to try to focus on main plot and not the details. Once you are able to do with lines, you can move to whole page, and start from a corner and end up in the opposite corner, down page. There are people that can read one page in few seconds with these methods. Not reliable all the time, especially when you want to focus on details.

Me thinks this should be relavant.

I used to read Piers Anthony novels and they were somewhere in the 200 page range. Which I'd say 4-6 hours.

Then again, small paperbacks have fewer words than something in comparison to say, oh, D&D books (which have microscopic print)

I tend to digest books a little slower by myself, but if I'm reading it aloud I tend to go twice as fast, less for myself to enjoy but for those I'm reading to. As a teenager I realized how easy it was to bore them when I read at my own pace.

I took a course on speed reading many years ago. This will of course vary on the book, but if you want to learn how to read faster. Some things you can try are this:

Move your eyes to the left and right for a minute or two a day (possibly twice a day). This is to help make your eyes stronger so they won't get tired.

Time yourself reading a book for 5 minutes as fast as you can while being able to comprehend/remember what you read. It may help to put your fingers or something below the line so you don't lose your place. When the 5 minutes are up, try to give a summary of what you read. If you can't summarize what you read or the summary isn't very good, possibly try reading a little slower. if your summary is good, try a faster speed. Once you feel comfortable, perhaps try increasing the time.



While the above might not help you read a book a day, it might help you get through it faster.

I'm reminded a long time ago of a system that was suppose to help you read faster. It was a mp3-like player, except it produced a sine wave, the sine wave determined which ear would get the input that was a soft whoosh or faint sound, and you'd move your eyes to the point that matched the sine wave to direct the speed of your reading...