There are people who could easily read 125+ pages per hour…even scholarly monographs.
One college classmate in a few seminar classes we’ve had together demonstrated that throughout the semester to the amazement of yours truly and other classmates. Granted, he is an extreme exception…and is exceptional in other ways such as graduating a few years ahead of me with high honors at 17 years of age and is currently an assistant Prof on the tenure track at a respectable U somewhere in the NW.
Agreed. Incidentally, one older friend who has acted as a mentor with grad school applications with an older college classmate expressed concern with me over his extremely slow reading speed. He expressed concerns about how would he cope with the heavy reading loads and sometimes tight deadlines common in elite/respectable PhD programs in our fields of academic interest if he struggled with the reading loads we had as undergrad seminar students*.
- I.e. 800-1000 pages/week/class. And some of it was some of the most dry, dense, and atrociously written prose in various academic monographs/journal articles I've encountered. A reason why I sympathize with those who joke that Profs/grad students in that particular field tend to be among the worst writers in academia.