Hmm, needs some work but a good start, also ignore the deranged weirdos. There is a group already translating this so your bound to get them to come out of the woodwork screaming.
Edit: pretty much as limoncello said
Under the reader setting, there is 2 settings that helped me out. First is switching the images from native to compressed. It seemed to take a few chs to apply but it did decrease loading times. the other is the image server option. test out both options and see which one is faster. The other...