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I learned quickly in undergrad that the only way to get through enough material for certain classes was to skim it, making exceptions only for things that caught my interest (<1% of reading) or which seemed particularly important to the professor (<.5% of reading).

The classes like this were the worst. Impossible to learn much. Impossible to have decent class discussion. Every session was a room full of students being asked to pontificate on something no one could have read enough of to do so adequately. More than anything, this destroyed my desire to read.

Because it became clear quickly that knowledge and insight were not built through reading tens of thousands of pages of bloviation around small core thoughts.