I think that’s how everybody does it with stuff that’s new to them.
After enough slow progress (“one page per day” can easily be speed reading), parts of what you are reading become what mathematicians call ‘trivial’, and your reading speed of similar texts increases.
I think there’s an analogy with ‘reading’ a chess position. If you watch the ongoing Carlson-Caruana match on https://youtube.com/watch?v=DgvqBjrusIA, you’ll notice that the commenters can easily go through three or four variants in a minute, and call one position an obvious draw, another clearly winning, etc. The reason they can do that is that they have looked at thousands of similar positions, and remember the essential parts of them.
After enough slow progress (“one page per day” can easily be speed reading), parts of what you are reading become what mathematicians call ‘trivial’, and your reading speed of similar texts increases.
I think there’s an analogy with ‘reading’ a chess position. If you watch the ongoing Carlson-Caruana match on https://youtube.com/watch?v=DgvqBjrusIA, you’ll notice that the commenters can easily go through three or four variants in a minute, and call one position an obvious draw, another clearly winning, etc. The reason they can do that is that they have looked at thousands of similar positions, and remember the essential parts of them.