Do you guys use speed reading techniques?
tom_rath: I don't.  Quantity rarely corresponds with quality.The greatest value I gain from books is in identifying how the subject discussed can apply to my own circumstances.  That insight often  comes to me in the pauses between pages and paragraphs where I find myself thinking on what was just read.I might be able to absorb a bit more information from speed-reading, but I don't think I could process and internalize the text nearly as well.  Since that's why I'm reading the book in the first place, speed-reading seems of little benefit to me.