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Originally Posted by Sadhana  I think it really depends on whether you like reading books or not. |
I think it also depends on whether you're truly interested in the book, and whether it's a style that engages you or not. A book you're trying to force feed yourself you'll never finish (for me, The Brothers Karamozov... great book, but I only made it halfway through, lol). And if it's hard to read, it's going to take a while (like a book called Light Emerging that I'm reading; it's fairly dense in content).
I'm a lit major, and I have my dry periods where I go months without reading a book all the way through, but sometimes (this weekend for example) I'll just pick up a book and read it cover to cover, and then go to the store, get another book, and read it cover to cover, too. Both the books I read this weekend were ones that I was really, really engaged in each topic, and they also had a very easy-to-read style that included a lot of engaging narrative between informational bits (Rage Against the Veil, and Rich Dad Poor Dad).
One thing that I occasionally do (which is difficult for a lit major and bookworm) is grab a book that sounds interesting and skim through it. I do this with dated nonfiction, for example. I read the first and last sentence of a paragraph unless it really grabs my attention -- then I'll actually dig in and read it more thoroughly. I read Fit for Life that way; took me less than an hour and I grasped the basics quite well. It was a very repetive book with important ideas in bold and caps, which helped with the skimming method.