... what we all been saying is there was only 20-30 minutes period not skipping text, there wasn't much added to the story.
You almost made me doubt my memory. After all, it's a long time since last update. But let me put it this way:
size of game script from 0.7.1 = 1.8MB
size of game script from 0.8.0 = 2.4MB
That's with the code, so just texts are smaller. After a rough cleanup by simple script:
size of texts from 0.7.1 = 1.4MB
size of texts from 0.8.0 = 1.8MB
difference between the two (= size of texts in update) = 488kB
If you're not sure how much is that, you can check attached file. So reading this in 20-30 minutes? No, it doesn't seem likely. In game, you could read a little less, because there's a little bit of branching, but not that much, most of it is very linear. But you were surely looking at images, that's extra time even if you don't admire them for too long. Plus clicking to see another line slows the progress too.