I feel the same but I think it's important to specify that most of the reading I've had to so to learn a lot about programming, and code much more specifically, is very structured.

You don't need to read every word most of the time because most programming related information, documentation, and tutorials are amazingly categorized. I think this is more so then any other field. Do you need to learn about some obscure topic? There's someone who's written some perfect sample code to do your task.

You only need to read a lot because you need to do a lot of different things in the course of your day.