The 250,000 statistic is what most people can do when in PhotoFocus. Now, you're not "reading" per say so much as you're doing an "info dump," blasting everything into your implicit memory centers via pre-conscious processing. Now, if you're very skilled you can do spontanious activation on facts and details. However, it is "not fun" to be put under that kind of stress.
If you're doing something like direct learning, (say, three guides on backgammon, a book on strategy in general and a book on probability), where you don't actually activate the books except as a change in behavior and perception, then you're "reading" at 250,000. Otherwise, that activity which we call "reading" is a tool within the PhotoReading Whole Mind System used for very specific purposes.