Oh, that is cool! I did a speed reading course when I was 16 and got faster, but only by about 30%. My reading issues now are different though.
as we had few thousand books in our house.
This used to be "common" in some way, right? A few years back (maybe 2014 - so many years back), I was in St Petersburg and was surprised at how people were reading everywhere. On the subway, on the escalator to the subway, at the cafés and restaurants. Everyone had a book - hardly any phones in hand.
and I would pay him something like $0.1 for every book over 200 pages that he would read.
This made me laugh!
Oh yes, the speed is not increasing to superspeed, but think about, that 20-30% increase in speed, how much time you saved over few decades.