Hehe, you guys are not going to believe this, but, well, I did a number of speed reading courses (up to advanced level). I can do 2,400 words per minute with 95% comprehension, and I've managed to clock 3,000 words per minute but with only 40% comprehension. Unfortunately it is NOT fun to read at those speeds because you need to stay focussed and concentrate extremely hard. Not to mention your brain is gettting a lot of new information very fast. Not my idea of a relaxing time.
My average speed through novels is about 1,600 words per minute. Through technical books its probably not even 500.
Those speeds are about 7 months old, and only valid for English (my second language). The speed of the rest of the languages I can read is nowhere near that of English.