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>>20528139
Admittedly, your problem is worse. The faster you get, the harder it is to make meaningful gains. An hour per manga page can be sliced down to thirty minutes a manga page in a week or less depending on the learner, and doing so has fairly concrete steps - looking up unknown words and kanji. But two minutes per LN page is a very low time for a lot of text (assuming a fullish page), and indicates familiarity with every word/kanji already. Getting that down to one minute will take a lot of time and there's no concrete steps for it, you just have to read more and more and more and more until eventually you just naturally get faster. That's a lot harder and will take a lot longer.

If I might offer a little advice, try not to focus on "speedreading". In many ways, speedreading is basically skimming, and it will hurt you both in the sense you comprehend less of the text and in the sense that you actually won't get faster at reading since you're not getting used to processing the text faster, you're getting used to skipping chunks of the sentence. I can understand the urge to get faster but it'll be better if you just read normally, process everything, and let your experience build. At the very least, 2 minutes per page is a good milestone in that you can now read 1 book a day if given enough time. If you stick to reading you'll see exponential gains, I think.

(Judging by the LNs I've read, I read about a page per minute (6 hoursish for a 300-some page book).