Ha! You aren't going to find too many "Claires" out there -- believe it or not, when I was in 4th grade the school system I was in (Reno, NV) took a dozen or so of us kids who got high scores on some test and taught us speed reading. I don't use the skill much, not sure if I even can do it effectively. But I do read pretty fast.
My husband never read just to read before he retired. Now he still doesn't read fiction; he was a history major, and in retirement he chooses an epoch for study. With the advent of the internet (in our house it was ten years ago), he'll tell me what his new era of study is, and I go on Amazon and get a bunch of titles for him. Then he goes on Netflix and finds out if there's a BBC series on that era (you'd be surprised how often there is!) so that whatever era he's reading about, we're watching as well.
Over the years, for a man who doesn't really enjoy reading, when we visit people for the first time, he zeroes in on whether or not there are any books lying around. He's suspect of anyone who doesn't have a full bookshelf within sight.