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I can finish LN volumes in a couple hours, so you can take it from me, that the only thing you can do is read more. That's all I did. There are big jumps in reading speed when you stop having to look up kanji, and when you stop having to look up vocab (because unknown vocab gets so rare that you can ignore them or pick up from context). Those jumps are reached by reading a lot. After that, your reading speed will gradually improve the more you read as you become more comfortable with the language, but those two big jumps are the most important.

If you still need to look up kanji, aside from just reading more, consider making an Anki deck of words with kanji you don't know to help yourself learn them.
If you still need to look up words, you may want to consider making an Anki vocab deck. For me, personally, I dropped Anki at 10k~ words, so I know Anki isn't as valuable for vocab as it is for kanji, so I wouldn't say this is a hugely important step, it's just an option. Otherwise, if you don't want to make an Anki vocab deck... you just gotta keep reading! You'll learn vocab as you read.

Anyway, that's all. Basically read more and your reading speed will improve. If you want my honest opinion, I think you should read VNs for awhile because texthookers make learning kanji and vocab way faster than when reading LNs, but I won't try and push that on an LN thread. Language learning is one of the few situations where quantity trumps quality. If you read a ton your speed will improve without a doubt. It can take some time (I'm reaching 3 years of studying, that's about how long it took to finish LNs in a couple hours) but don't get discouraged, because if you keep trying you'll succeed. The last thing I'll say is try to keep on top of looking up unknown words. It's a lot harder to learn words if you always try and guess from context instead of just looking them up. Kotobank/Goo are great J->J dictionaries but EDICT is fine for J->E most of the time (I use a program called Tagaini Jisho for offline lookups which are faster than going to the internet).