There's this comedic sketch where they read some pages, skip others, flip some, and cross out others, and so on. :)

As we can see, the statement "no one reads" is incorrect here – at least Alessandro read it. In my opinion, the texts should simply be changed on the forum. :)

And regarding the game time, I'll say it again: the less time per turn, the faster the game progresses. Yesterday, on GameSpy (wcl), for example, we played a game that lasted 3 weeks in just 2 hours.