I am a natural fast reader too. I could read pages almost diagonally while being 100% aware of the degree of relevance of every phrase and able to slow down if I found something worth reading more carefully.
I used to read super-fast especially in forums, when I was looking for a particular answer and I knew for sure that the chance of finding that was extremely low.
But when I found out about speedreading and I tried to consciously eliminate sub-vocalization, I found that it reduced my comprehension ability.
I also read on a speedreading blog that there are 2 types of subvocalisation - the one where you imagine yourself actually saying the words, and the involuntary one where you hear fragments of words as you go along reading, and that this second type of vocalization is impossible and very dangerous to eliminate, therefore I don't try, especially since I can't imagine someone reading faster that I do, except by using photoreading, which is different.
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