Actually, you should not have to slow your reading down. Writers are compensated by read time, which I believe is accurately accounted for, even if the binary read statistic doesn’t get tallied up right.

And even then your fast reading should not be a problem, because your monthly $5 (or whatever portion of it is distributed to writers) is doled out based on the percentage of stuff you read.

Say for example you read one story all month. Whoever wrote that story will get your entire share of the membership fee.

If you read two stories for roughly the same amounts of reading time, then your share would be cut in half and divvied out to those two writers.

Even if the two writers had written theoretically 10 minute stories, and you spent 3 minutes reading each of them, they would be compensated as if you had spent 10 minutes reading each of them.

Or so goes the theory, anyway, by people who have reason to know what they are talking about.

Essentially, I think the “reads" writers see in their stats are much less meaningful than accumulated read time, which for some purposes is evaluated by reader.