Do you skip pages while reading a book?

Milly Ross · Post by **Milly Ross** » 01 Aug 2014, 14:14

I could never skip any pages. (I hate going to the bathroom during a movie, too--no matter how bad the movie.) If I am reading a book that slows down like that. I'll just stop reading. And maybe pick it up again at a later date. I find myself doing that with Stephen King books like Tommyknockers and Needful Things, but then I pick it up again and can't stop reading.

Shinyfox · Post by **Shinyfox** » 01 Aug 2014, 14:16

Charlotte Reese wrote:
verymuchmeg wrote:I do know some people who are sticklers for reading the copyright page, the extra pages in the front that have blurbs about the book, the page with the list of the author's other books, the forward and afterward if they exist, etc."
I actually do that. Before I start reading the actual content, I read the copyright page first and the book's publication history, the foreword, author's notes if there are any but I only read the blurbs and the author's mini-bio after I'm done with the book. I don't want them to influence my reading experience.

I guess, that answers the OP's question. No, I don't skip pages. I read every word in the book including long descriptive details of places, clothes etc.

I never even thought about counting the copyright page and most of the rest that you mentioned. I often read author's notes/acknowledgments and often the page with the books that the author has written, especially if it is a series. And I'll read the Author's mini-bio. I don't think I could bring myself to read the copyright page in every book!

brittanyericaa · Post by **brittanyericaa** » 02 Aug 2014, 03:53

No, I cannot skip pages. It's not possible for me. I will skim through a boring book that I really want to like just to see if it gets better but I still have to read every word. What if I miss something significant to the story? I'd be so lost. I can't skip episodes of my favorite shows for the same reason.

darkfae2317 · Post by **darkfae2317** » 02 Aug 2014, 04:26

I don't usually skip pages unless It's a book I'm trudging through and I want to find any interesting bits to the story.

daniellefouche · Post by **daniellefouche** » 02 Aug 2014, 17:15

I never skip pages, but I am sometimes unable to resist peaking ahead to see what is coming!

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 02 Aug 2014, 19:39

I dont. Sometimes I skip through the preface if its boring, but never the main part.

Reading lady · Post by **Reading lady** » 02 Aug 2014, 21:22

I don't skip pages as I don't want to miss anything. That being said some authors go into far too much detail describing things such as the scenery or what someone is wearing or similar things and I will skip over these kinds of descriptions.

Pagesofmylife · Post by **Pagesofmylife** » 03 Aug 2014, 05:24

Sometimes when I get really tired I start skimming a little bit and have to go back to where I lost track, but other than that I read word to word, even though I read really fast I can still comprehend it all perfectly fine.When I was younger, I read a lot of big books, and reread them a lot too and I used to skip bits in effort to be fast, because I was very impatient, especially with thriller or romance buildups. Now I couldn't do it even if I wanted to, i feel the need to absorb all the information from the story. The only exception to this is when I am reading a really boring book and trying to stick with it, so I skim a little bit trying to see if it gets any better and is worth reading.

Cheryl Kumst · Post by **Cheryl Kumst** » 03 Aug 2014, 07:32

I read every page word for word. Does not matter how boring. I'm always so afraid I will miss some important information that makes the whole book together. I know this sounds crazy but its like a disorder. I feel bereft if I miss pages. Completely ruins a book for me.

kayleymicek · Post by **kayleymicek** » 03 Aug 2014, 08:52

I feel so guilty when I do this, but if it's getting boring I'll skip pages. Or if I'm too excited about what's happening I'll skip pages also.

Emilie North · Post by **Emilie North** » 03 Aug 2014, 15:30

I don't skip pages. I always read the book word for word. If it gets slow and I get bored with it to the point that I want to start skipping pages, I switch books.

Elaine29 · Post by **Elaine29** » 03 Aug 2014, 18:13

Rarely. Will only do it if I find the book getting very boring but still want to try and finish it. Haven't done it for a while!

Alison97 · Post by **Alison97** » 04 Aug 2014, 14:05

Usually I don't, expect one time I had to read The Age of Innocence for school, and my mom bought me this really awkwardly formatted book. The pages were humongous. I mean, you could've surfed on this thing. And of course, Edith Wharton's prose is a tad wordy to begin with...

I ended up reading the chapters out of order and pretending I was reading The Time Traveler's Wife. Plus, I think there's some pages in the middle somewhere I never really got to.

What a shame

Kam_G · Post by **Kam_G** » 04 Aug 2014, 14:53

I love reading, but there are so many books in the world that I want to read that sometimes I don't have time to read every word in a book and so will skim. Some books aren't worth the time and energy it takes to read each and every word and paragraph.

PetalsOpenToTheMoon · Post by **PetalsOpenToTheMoon** » 04 Aug 2014, 15:29

I read everything word for word, but I do tend to cheat every once and a while and speed read, which, may i remind you, is not the same thing as skipping pages.