Oh, my fond memories, I was lucky enough to find some old Russian book about how to read faster, with a handful of techniques, when I was 12. I applied them since, as I was an avid reader since I learn to read at age of 5. Now, decades later, my reading speed is something else.

And we use to read a lot in our family, as we had few thousand books in our house. I remember when my brother was like 10-14, we had a running contest, and I would pay him something like $0.1 for every book over 200 pages that he would read. He was reading 50-100 books per year, thinking that he robbed me blind (especially poetry, as there are less words in those books). Best money I ever spent.