Having just put down a book before reaching the end, I asked this question on Twitter as I was curious about how others felt.
To my surprise the majority of people stop reading if they are not enjoying a book, rather than persisting to the end. There was a range of answers related to page count and chapters, with the most extreme answer, I think, coming from Philip Pullman:-
Sometimes the answer was proportional to the length of the book
https://twitter.com/biktairov/status/1145012590830993409
Sometimes the answer was related to cost
So, here’s a follow up question as a poll. I wonder, if the general stance has changed because in 2019 we have TV and films on demand, whole TV series arrive in one chunk and can be binged, hundreds of cheap digital books available at the press of a button, and there’s more content than ever before.
Are we less patient with books? Do we want them to get to the good stuff sooner? Has all of this impacted your reading attention span? Are you less forgiving?
Stephen Aryan 