3000 Reputation points per hour

You don't need to grind the titles to advance the stroyline i believe, only if you want to use the skills, crafters etc. So if you don't want to grind, don't. You can do it with one toon and craft consumables if you want them and use them on any character. There are plenty of other places to craft weapons and armour. People did fine before EOTN PvE only skills, so i'm sure you can manage without them. I kind of forget about them anyway since they don't fall under one of my profession skill lines.

I am a little bitter because I finished EotN before I knew of or knew the importance of the books. Then when I went back to buy the books completed, all but one of my toons were only given a blank book. So of the 6 toons that had completed EotN, only 1 got a completed book in the deal. That being said, most of the other toons are only at 3 level of any of the title. The one I am most interested is Norn, but even at the most optimistic point gathering scenario, to get to a decent level, say 6 in Norn, I would need to put a lot of time in grinding.

Norn Points_____Level
_8,000__________3
16,000__________4
26,000__________5
40,000__________6
56,000__________7

So based on say a mid level 3, 12,000 pts., it would take the following HM books
40,000-12,000 = 28,000/3000=9.333 books (say 9 books) to get up to level 6.
At about 45-60 minutes per book, including team changes and set up for each quest, this would mean for ONE TOON it would take 7 to 9 hours of just doing those quest to gain enough points to reach a decent Norn level of 6! MAN I HATE GRINDING.