Do you skip pages while reading a book?

booknerd1230 · Post by **booknerd1230** » 20 Jun 2014, 20:00

I never skip pages, I feel like if you start skipping pages:
1) you should either put the book down
2) It was not that great of a read for you to begin with

Reading_Bee · Post by **Reading_Bee** » 21 Jun 2014, 00:36

I can't skip pages. I'd get confused easily and the curiosity of what was on those few pages would eat me alive.

Snowfall · Post by **Snowfall** » 21 Jun 2014, 00:48

The only time I skip pages when reading a book is when the book gets boring. Then I google search the ending and read random chapters that are near the end. But I do always go back after words to read the parts I skipped.

semra · Post by **semra** » 21 Jun 2014, 02:17

No I don't skip pages, but if the book is really boring it take me a long time to finish.

krisihome · Post by **krisihome** » 21 Jun 2014, 04:23

I've had my Mum stay with me for the last 2 weeks and I noticed that she skips paragraphs, pages and seems to skim over the words! which would explain how she can read about 2 books a day! haha! Amazingly enough she can re-tell you the story as if she's read it word for word.

kratika · Post by **kratika** » 21 Jun 2014, 06:22

malime6 wrote:I recently found myself skipping pages - sometimes whole chapters - while I read. It doesn't matter if it's a good book or not. I feel like I am either speed reading because the book is boring but I still want to know the end but read some of the middle just in case the interest level picks up. Or the story progression is slow but I don't want to dismiss it just in case it gets better. Or the book is so good that I want to skip to the "good" parts. Even when I end up having to reread a chapter because I missed something important I still do it.

Does anyone else experience this?

even i do it when i want to reach the end early. cheating is not wrong all the time.

-- 21 Jun 2014, 07:22 --

malime6 wrote:I recently found myself skipping pages - sometimes whole chapters - while I read. It doesn't matter if it's a good book or not. I feel like I am either speed reading because the book is boring but I still want to know the end but read some of the middle just in case the interest level picks up. Or the story progression is slow but I don't want to dismiss it just in case it gets better. Or the book is so good that I want to skip to the "good" parts. Even when I end up having to reread a chapter because I missed something important I still do it.

Does anyone else experience this?

even i do it when i want to reach the end early. cheating is not wrong all the time.

Hendmosaad89 · Post by **Hendmosaad89** » 21 Jun 2014, 07:25

I would only skip pages if they aren't important for me to know or would change something in the bigger image or message of the story.
But of course if I changed too many pages, then I would return the ebook or stop reading it.

Lady_Phantom · Post by **Lady_Phantom** » 21 Jun 2014, 10:06

I am ashamed to say that I have and likely will continue to skip a few pages here and there. If the author is particularly long winded and a certain aspect that really does not pertain to the topic of the story I will skim through till I find the place where the story continues. Like a particularly detailed descriptions, clothing, scenery, weather, It is not necessary to describe every rock, pebble tree root or cloud to get the feel of the surroundings.

MJ Compton · Post by **MJ Compton** » 21 Jun 2014, 12:07

Never. It took the author a lot of time to come up with just the right words in the right order. I respect that.

RG Dillon · Post by **RG Dillon** » 21 Jun 2014, 14:19

I don't skip entire chapters, but I do on occasion (and even for books I really like) "skim" areas that to me have to much "fill" let's call it.

Ron

GERBAM · Post by **GERBAM** » 21 Jun 2014, 14:35

I rarely skip pages. I do when the writing is slow or redundant.

ursellb · Post by **ursellb** » 21 Jun 2014, 14:37

No I don't skip any pages when I read a book. I have to read the whole book because I don't want to miss anything.

heronlover · Post by **heronlover** » 21 Jun 2014, 14:53

I will only skip if I am reading a section that is disturbing (too graphic or violent). Then I will skim and skip until I get past that bit. I don't usually read graphic type stories, but occasionally a mystery or a fantasy type story will get too descriptive, and I'll skip that section.

Metarex · Post by **Metarex** » 21 Jun 2014, 15:13

No unless the book doesn't interest me a lot or I've read it before. If it doesn't really grab my attention, I just want to get to the good parts and know how it all ends. If I've read it before, I might not have realized it until I read it or I like it so much that I read it again, but skip parts I didn't like as much.