Lotta Olsson works as a literary critic and editor at Dagens Nyheter.

She is known for her tips pages with detective stories and children's books - and because she reads very fast.

She can get through an ordinary detective story in four to five hours.

She gave Lydia Sandgren's bestseller Collected Works (689 pages) two days.

- I have calculated that I read about 350 books a year.

But then it's also my job, she says.

She has had the high pace since she was little.

Lotta Olsson reads the books from beginning to end but takes liberties on each page.

- I jump a lot.

I can start at the end of the post and see what happens.

Then it takes quite a short time to figure out what is important to read carefully.

And then you can go back and read again.

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Search for keywords

Lotta Olsson says that she has no problem understanding what she is reading.

Otherwise, it is precisely the reading comprehension that gets hit on the foot if you try to speed up with the summer books, according to Caroline Liberg, professor of educational science at Uppsala University.

- It is probably possible to find strategies to quickly get through a text.

But that often means that you do not read everything, she says.

A trick can be to read books in a genre and by authors you are already well acquainted with.

- Then you know better which keywords you should search for and may cost you to skip certain paragraphs.

You can more easily see "I probably do not need this environmental description ...", says Caroline Liberg.

Quick reading - a myth

There are plenty of methods online for so-called "quick reading".

With simple tricks, you should be able to train yourself and greatly reduce your reading time.

It can be about color-coding the text, just reading the middle of the page, or selecting single words.

- There is no scientific support for any of these methods, says Marcus Nyström, research engineer at the Humanities Laboratory at Lund University.

Quick reading is about the same as skimming a text: you will miss large parts.

- When you read, the eye fixes on every or every other word.

If you read fast, you have to cheat and guess the content that you do not have time to look at.

It can work quite well if you read a predictable text, but you will of course miss information, says Marcus Nyström.