diff --git a/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/column/values/plain/BinaryPlainValuesReader.java b/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/column/values/plain/BinaryPlainValuesReader.java
index 6ce2f31a43..c0532f2961 100644
--- a/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/column/values/plain/BinaryPlainValuesReader.java
+++ b/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/column/values/plain/BinaryPlainValuesReader.java
@@ -19,36 +19,38 @@
 package org.apache.parquet.column.values.plain;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.nio.ByteOrder;
 import org.apache.parquet.bytes.ByteBufferInputStream;
-import org.apache.parquet.bytes.BytesUtils;
 import org.apache.parquet.column.values.ValuesReader;
-import org.apache.parquet.io.ParquetDecodingException;
 import org.apache.parquet.io.api.Binary;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
+/**
+ * Plain encoding reader for BINARY values.
+ *
+ * <p>Reads directly from a {@link ByteBuffer} with {@link ByteOrder#LITTLE_ENDIAN} byte order,
+ * using {@link ByteBuffer#getInt()} for the 4-byte length prefix instead of 4 individual
+ * {@code InputStream.read()} calls through {@link org.apache.parquet.bytes.BytesUtils#readIntLittleEndian}.
+ */
 public class BinaryPlainValuesReader extends ValuesReader {
   private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(BinaryPlainValuesReader.class);
-  private ByteBufferInputStream in;
+  private ByteBuffer buffer;
 
   @Override
   public Binary readBytes() {
-    try {
-      int length = BytesUtils.readIntLittleEndian(in);
-      return Binary.fromConstantByteBuffer(in.slice(length));
-    } catch (IOException | RuntimeException e) {
-      throw new ParquetDecodingException("could not read bytes at offset " + in.position(), e);
-    }
+    int length = buffer.getInt();
+    ByteBuffer valueSlice = buffer.slice();
+    valueSlice.limit(length);
+    buffer.position(buffer.position() + length);
+    return Binary.fromConstantByteBuffer(valueSlice);
   }
 
   @Override
   public void skip() {
-    try {
-      int length = BytesUtils.readIntLittleEndian(in);
-      in.skipFully(length);
-    } catch (IOException | RuntimeException e) {
-      throw new ParquetDecodingException("could not skip bytes at offset " + in.position(), e);
-    }
+    int length = buffer.getInt();
+    buffer.position(buffer.position() + length);
   }
 
   @Override
@@ -57,6 +59,11 @@ public void initFromPage(int valueCount, ByteBufferInputStream stream) throws IO
         "init from page at offset {} for length {}",
         stream.position(),
         (stream.available() - stream.position()));
-    this.in = stream.remainingStream();
+    int available = stream.available();
+    if (available > 0) {
+      this.buffer = stream.slice(available).order(ByteOrder.LITTLE_ENDIAN);
+    } else {
+      this.buffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(0).order(ByteOrder.LITTLE_ENDIAN);
+    }
   }
 }