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Traveller, it was drudgery for me at first, but after a while I was able to easily spot the repetitious parts that contain, for example, just one changed word from the previous passages. Instead of reading every word of every repetition, I just skim quickly for the changed word(s). Once you learn groupings of things, such as the khandas, you can even predict the content of large sections of suttas without having to plow through every word.