I never read books unless it's for school. Then it depends on how good it is. If I like it it'll take a few weeks probably. If I don't like it I'll read till it gets to boring to continue then I'll get rid of it and hope I won't fail to hard at the test.
This is trite perhaps, but it depends on what I'm reading. If it's some light fantasy fiction, then a matter of some hours. If I'm re-readig Herodotus or Livy... days, and if it's a technical journal or text then a maximum. I could blast through Cryptonomicon, but the same page count in MTW's 'Gravitation' is going to be eponentially slower.
About 5 or 6 hours at the most, that's if I read it all in one go obviously, not every book is captivating. The last Harry Potter book I read in a day, from about 10/11 in the morning till the same time at night, with some breaks for getting food and not peeing my pants.
I would have to say anywhere from 2 days to a week. Depends on how much other stuff I have going on and how large the print is. It takes me about 2 seconds to read a line. Every time I try to block read as you're taught in speed reading, I miss something. Sometimes it's contextual part of a dialogue or just not imagining and picturing it right. My comprehension goes way down too. It's not really slow, but it's about average. Something like 250 to 300 words a minute. I wish I could read like 800 to 1,000 wpm with high comprehension and retention. That would be optimally ideal.
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