All of a sudden I'm trying to remember if reading speed has ever been mentioned in a pathfinder book at all, something like "You can read x number of pages in 1 hour".
Am I misremembering or?
When writing spells in a spell book, it takes one hour per spell level to write out the spell.
But there doesn't seem to be any information about reading it.
Deciphering a page of text using Linguistics takes 1 minute, and detecting a forgery takes a round per page. The Read Magic spell lets you decipher spellbooks at a rate of 1 page (250 words) per minute. You could use those as a baseline---maybe reading a language you understand at 1 page per round.
Kreighton's Perusal states:
You gain a brief but incomplete understanding of one book’s contents, equivalent to having skimmed its pages for 1 hour.
Reading a Pathfinder Chronicles takes an hour to gain its bonus.
A Blue book takes an hour to gain its bonus.
How many pages to a book? I have no idea. :-)
But at least this gives you something to work with.
/cevah
The wikipedia article on words per minute has some good info.
Basically, reading is around 200 wpm but depends on language, level of comprehension and presumably clarity of the text. Converting that number into pages per hour depends on how many words are on a page.
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All of a sudden I'm trying to remember if reading speed has ever been mentioned in a pathfinder book at all, something like "You can read x number of pages in 1 hour".
Am I misremembering or?
It's based on what you read, not a general rule covering the speed of all reading. One number for written spells, another if searching a library for a specific passage, and others still if proof reading other's work. I think the non-game mechanic reading speed is mostly a roleplaying thing.