Reading and studying the scriptures

I love this bible reading system that I'm using right now, it's been a couple weeks and I'm definitely not consistent yet, but I'm reading a lot more than before I started. It's a great way to get an overview of the bible by reading 10 chapters a day, from 10 different parts of the bible. It's pretty cool. Right now I'm reading in Gen, 1Chron, Job, Psalms, Prov, Isa, Mt, Acts, Rom, 1Thess all at the same time - I hardly get bored anymore (I should never get bored but...I do :S)! I use post-it sticky tabs. These are a couple of tips that are included:

Read quickly (without “speed-reading”) in order to get the overall sense.
Read as fast as you comfortably can with moderate retention. You’re not
studying deeply or memorizing; shoot for 5-6 minutes per chapter. At the
end of a chapter, move immediately to the next list.

GET THROUGH THE TEXT – no dawdling, back reading, looking
up cross-references

Don’t look up anything you ‘don’t get’ – real understanding will come
through contextualizing by reading a LOT of scripture over time. Get
through the text!

This is really helpful to me right now because I tend to get stuck when I want to understand everything before reading on and I end up not reading much of the Word.

I am also planning to start (another attempt) a study in Romans (by Tim Keller), on which I WILL spend lots of time "dawdling, back reading, and looking up cross-references".