Based on my experience reading academic papers, I would suggest that you would often be better off skimming 3 papers in a week than reading one closely.
I would often do this in grad school:
* Go search for papers that broadly had to do with some structure or other mathematical gadget I was interested in at the time,
* Read the abstracts of those papers to find the ones that looked most interesting,
* Take the most interesting papers, and read the statements of the theorems,
* Finally, devote a little more attention to those papers that had interesting theorems that seemed to fall within the domain of what I was working on.
I did this with math papers, but there's no particular reason you can't generalize this to other fields. CS in particular can use almost the exact same methods. For less mathematical fields, you'd need to make some substitutions, such as "section headers and key topic sentences" for "statements of theorems," but you can make it work there, too.
Doing this, in a decade, you end up reading 1560 abstracts, which is probably more useful in terms of "Oh, wait, I've seen this before" type insights than reading 520 entire papers.
I would often do this in grad school:
* Go search for papers that broadly had to do with some structure or other mathematical gadget I was interested in at the time,
* Read the abstracts of those papers to find the ones that looked most interesting,
* Take the most interesting papers, and read the statements of the theorems,
* Finally, devote a little more attention to those papers that had interesting theorems that seemed to fall within the domain of what I was working on.
I did this with math papers, but there's no particular reason you can't generalize this to other fields. CS in particular can use almost the exact same methods. For less mathematical fields, you'd need to make some substitutions, such as "section headers and key topic sentences" for "statements of theorems," but you can make it work there, too.
Doing this, in a decade, you end up reading 1560 abstracts, which is probably more useful in terms of "Oh, wait, I've seen this before" type insights than reading 520 entire papers.