Say each book is 300 pages and he reads 30 pages an hour (generous). It would typically take 20 hours to finish two books. That leaves 4 hours to sleep, eat, wash, and do his job.
Oh but he read really fast? That's just about as useful as watching a movie in fast-forward.
Reading is something you get significantly faster at by doing it a lot. You recognise words you are familiar with much faster etc.
Expect anyone who reads a lot to go at at least a page per minute with full comprehension. Speed Readers often read with reasonable comprehension at 3 times that rate.
Things that pop out as being quotable are generally pretty apparent if you read a lot simply because they'll be new and somehow interesting.
It just strikes me as a terrible way to read. To continue the analogy, I could watch a movie in fast forward and still work out what was going on and what the notable scenes were ("gosh, they're chasing him through the sewers of Vienna!"). But I wouldn't have experienced the art of the film whatsoever. Reading faster is more difficult, but similarly unhelpful. I realized a long time ago that there was literally no point trying to speed up my reading pace, and nothing to be gained from speed reading. You need to give your imagination time to explore the detail and connotations of the descriptions, not merely the meaning of the words. Otherwise you're just as well reading the cliff-notes.
Say each book is 300 pages and he reads 30 pages an hour (generous). It would typically take 20 hours to finish two books. That leaves 4 hours to sleep, eat, wash, and do his job.
Oh but he read really fast? That's just about as useful as watching a movie in fast-forward.