A paper a day may not be enough

Someone told me a few years ago, if you are serious about being a researcher, you will read one paper a day. Because people write so many papers (I think IEEE alone publishes about 10,000 papers a year in like 775 conferences) and people get offended if you do not cite their paper. So I know that I need to read a ton of papers, but at the same time I try to read only well cited papers. Currently I have a collection of about 400 papers and I've only managed to read about 150 of them and I feel like I've been going at a snails pace (so papers are difficult to read and it might take a week to digest). Plus, I usually take weekends off from paper reading so really, I read about 3 papers a week on average. I wanted to have all 400 papers read by then end of the semester (May 2010) but the only for that to happen would be for me to stop doing everything else (which is definitely not going to happen). So I may need to read two papers a day (mon-thurs) but we will see. I'm too tired to type in booooooommmm today but I guess I just did. Goodbye.