When you are reading a book, do you usually . . . ?

Read ahead, read the ending, skip pages and put it down. I don't watch tv - don't want one - so I read. And read. I don't read just one book at a time, and I don't finish a book I don't like - there are too many others waiting to be read!

None of these. I sometimes start off reading two or more books at a time to see which I can get into easiest.

I read a chapter or two a night in order without skipping ahead or reading the last page. Once in a while I stop reading something I've started if I don't like it, but not very often. I have finished books I didn't like too. Sometimes, I find I like them better after I'm done. Usually, there aren't many people who want to talk about what I'm reading.

I usually read only that book, as far as fiction goes. Non-fiction is different, since that's usually for work/research. With fiction, I always have something I'm reading, I usually read straight through, although it may take a while, and I usually try to finish what I start, unless I absolutely hate it. I give up on a book only once every few years, I'd say. I don't tend to talk about what I'm reading all that much, with the exception of the books for a book group I just joined.

I read only THAT book until you're finished. I also tend to take it with me almost everywhere. Not to the supermarket, but to work to read during lunch, then home to read before bed. It basically stays in my purse on week days.

I always read the last 15-20 pages or so.

I read a few things at once, so I don't get bored.

I always finish a book, whether I like it or not.

I just finished Juan Williams "Enough." I was a little surprised at some of the conservative undertones; Mr. Williams had always struck me as homogeneously left-leaning. I am almost finished with "Fleeced" by Dick Morris...pretty good actually.

take it with me, talk about it, and read it and others depending on the book. i never skip pages or check ahead to the ending. and i no longer keep reading if i hate something!

I don't read ahead, I don't read the last page first, I read several at a time, I rarely finish, if I hate it I stop reading it after several chances of it getting better, I sometimes take it with me, I don't skip anything, I don't talk abouit my business with the book.
I don't make time to read except at bedtime, but I cannot read if Mary is talking to me. I give up on reading. Unless I make time when no one else is around it won't ahppen.

Fiction: start to finish with some tiny peeks ahead, but not many. Nonfiction: start to finish with many peeks ahead and behind.

If I'm enjoying the book - it will travel everywhere with me so I can read it whenever I have the chance. If it's really, really good, I'll tell everyone about it.
I tend to just read one at a time, but if it's heavy going, I might pick up a book I can read in a night or two to break it up.
I have never not finished a book I started. I've never hated a book, but there are a few I wish I'd never started.


God I love books!!

Wow, loads of surveys about books in one.

'read ahead of where you are and then go back to where you were?' - Not intentionally

'read the last page so you know the ending and won't be surprised?' - No, it's stupid. I hate how people say 'but you don't remember it anyway.' It's like, so what's the point?

'put it down a few times to make the experience of reading it last longer?' I don't do this to make it last longer. I do this because a good 95% of the books I own or read I couldn't read in one go.

'read only THAT book until you're finished, or others too?' - Kind of. I categorise books as poetry, prose, and non-fiction, and I rarely read more than two books at the same time, and I never have two books of the same category at the same time.

'finish it even though you hate it?' - I try.

'take it with you everywhere?' - Usually; I still do this with A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, even though I'm only casually, reading it (for a third time).

'skip over lots of the pages and just pick out what you need to know?' - Eh. Sometimes, but I don't like to. I usually only do this as reference; I don't really count it as 'reading'.

'talk about it to everybody and their cousin? - Nope. I'll talk about it to my best mate or my brother if I really like a passage from it or if there's a bit I didn't like or found funny, but in general conversation I only mention books if I'm quoting them or already talking about them.

The quickest way to get through the book

read only ThAT book until finished, I am usually pretty obsessive esp if its an action book, I can read good books in one sitting, I can finish a 500pg novel in about 5hrs? if pushed

Other - don't read books. But when I did it was one book at a time, and only at lunchtime.

I read one book at a time. I don't skip ahead.

I always read nonfiction books and I never skip pages or read ahead. I normally read one or two books at a time; any more than that is too much. I do read almost everyday (at least a little bit), but I usually get sleepy and sometimes I have a hard time staying awake. This is probably due to the lack of proper sleep most of the time.

fall asleep unless it is really exciting

i also look at the page number and count down (doing the math). I normally read more than one book at a time

If I hate a book I don't finish it. I usually keep the book I'm reading in my purse.

I often, on a heavy book, I skip around in the book. Others, I read straight through.

I'm a really slow reader. Slow, but passionate, that's why I take my time when I'm reading a really good book. I always want to make it last longer and I want to absorb every word and my emotions always seem to change with the story. But when i'm forced to read a certain book (like when I was in highschool and had to read some book for a paper or whatever), I lose interest and stop reading it even though it's a rather good book.

When "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" arrived in the mail, I read the last two chapters first. Then I began at the beginning and read to the end.

What.

i read ahead accidentally most times. you know you flip ahead to put the bookmark in and you see a sentence or two and you get all antsy as to what's going on....i can't stand when i do it but sometimes it can't be helped! D:
and if i have a book i want to finish it and it'll be my little baby and will be by my side at all times.