Read Quick

[SangoProduction]

Are there any mechanical benefits to characters reading books really fast?
Like, I believe there are some end game stat boosting tomes that require a certain amount of time to read. Would a spell that lets someone read 1000 words / swift action reduce that time?
Is there anything else of note?

[Palanan]

Scholar's Touch allows you to absorb the knowledge of a single book in one round, but it explicitly disallows magical books such as the tomes you're referencing.

Other than that, nothing comes to mind. Reading a book faster than normal shouldn't have any advantage in how the knowledge is applied. Even if you can absorb it more quickly than usual, it's still the exact same information.

[SangoProduction]

After some searching, I did find a class of items that benefit from being read in game: Books! Imagine my shock.
https://www.d20pfsrd.com/equipmenT/goods-and-services/books-paper-writing-supplies/#TOC-Book

In particular, Adventurer's Chronicle normally takes 1d4 rounds of searching the book. Given that an average person reads at around 200-300 words per minute, and the spell lets you do 1000 in a swift action, this should grant you the ability to get the +2 (wow that's piddly) essentially at will.

The Arcane Family Workbook, if we assume you can read 3,000 words a rounds (swift, move and std action), and there are 10 rounds in a minute, then you read about 120 times the speed of a normal person. Assuming you can reduce the study time of the tome to about a minute, on average, to get the full +4 bonus.

The Obsession Log is similar...although craft/profession checks are played in narrative time so hardly a concern.

A Traveler's Dictionary would actually be pretty cool...if such a character that would bring around one of these didn't already innately know every language by virtue of their int score. And if non-Common languages were ever used.

So, basically, it lets you use masterwork items on knowledge checks without a time tax, and if you really needed to identify an item, and had a full minute but not an hour, it would also be useful.