Do you read everything you are given in a book/manga?
Do you read the long description paragraphs?
Do you skip certain scenes?

I tend to skip. All the time. It's so sad considering I can still read the whole story without missing anything. I definitely missed quite a bit of info in Nana and New Moon... I'm sorry but I can only hear about how much your life is a black hole of angst for so long. >:-(

Since I only read things with romance I also tend to skip all those tangents of sub character relationships. Honestly, I don't care. Stop wasting my time and get back to the main couple.

EDIT: Goong! Oh my lord I have never skipped more in my life. All the facts just hurt my head and I still have no idea what all their name/positions are. Plus so many sub plots. Still... I LOVE IT SO MUCH IT HURTS. 🤣

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When I start to get bored and just want to move along, I'll speed read until I see a part I need to read. I do this for manga and textbooks but not when reading novels, since I like to absorb everything then.

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Sometimes no. If I'm bored I skim through it. If I'm sleepy, I skip a few bubbles or skim. Like right now I had to stop reading One Piece because I'm sleepy and my mind isn't keeping up with what's going on. I read 50 chapters today no wonder I skipped a bubble or two 🤢

I read everything word for word...honestly, I thought that everyone did. If I re-read something, then I will skip certain scenes or skim through chapters if I can remember them, but I tend to read everything.

With manga I do read everything; there's really not THAT much to read! 🤣

With other reading material, it depends. If I'm in a hurry, or it's not that interesting, or I just want to know the main point of the newspaper article, etc. then I'll skim sometimes. Some authors are really good at descriptions and I'll read every word even if it's long & detailed, but others are not so gifted and I'll just read enough to get the main idea.

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With manga I do read everything; there's really not THAT much to read! 🤣

Some manga though... honestly. Nana and Ruby Doll were just WAY, WAY, WAY too wordy. Seriously my mind kinda blanked out.

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😲 That's a lot...

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I could safely say I've skipped a lot of the dialogue in the last 20 or so releases of Bleach of Naruto (especially Naruto). To be Frank I probably still understand the plot as much as everyone else. There are sometimes when I go through 2-3pages of a manga thats filled with text and I just lose interest quite fast, I like to read but sometimes I just can't be arsed for a semi-autobiography from one of the characters in speech bubbles.

There are always scene that I skip in certain manga, mainly the open hot spring scenes if there were any, its just worthless fanservice for me and skipping it has proven to not even affect my understanding of the story.

For a book I normally only read informative books like stuff related to economics or psychology, so there is little point in skipping ahead since you need the previous information to understand what the author is on about.
If I read a fictional piece of writing which was about 2 years ago, I only have an impulse to skip if I find it boring halfway through. Its like "I'm halfway through but there this huge boring part in the middle that I can't endure anymore, I wonder how it ends!" So yeah that is basically my take on books.

I also find long description paragraphs annoying, especially if its about a person, a place or location however is perfectly normal, things that I find too descriptive are books like Saturday by Ian McEwan

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I skipped the mahjong details in Akagi, the more complicated recipes in What Did You Eat Yesterday?, some of the longer play synopses in Glass Mask, and most of the tennis commentary in Prince of Tennis.

Other than that, no. I try to read everything or at least 90%. If I have to skip a lot, it usually means that it's not worth my time (for example, Detective Conan got so repetitive I started skipping whole text bubbles and then I had to drop it).

There are some mangas where I skip chapters or even volumes with the intent to go back to the missing portions if the ending turns out to be interesting. However, until I read the parts I skipped, I don't count myself as having "read" those mangas.

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Yes.
I didn't realize that people actually skipped words in books until I was in my teens.

I used to skip a lot when I first read manga. I was very small back then I came to manga, at that time I only think of manga as "picture books", no more no less 😀
The first manga I read in detail is Kaze Hikaru. My friend is a fan of this series so she bought every single books when this series were published. I did not like it much at first coz I hate history and thought that genre is really boring. My friend got mad when I said that her favourite series was boring. She even said that I was much a child since I thought manga as a "picture book" and all I care about r sexy scenes 🤢 ... And after that it was my turn to get mad, but what she said is true. I had all read before were: Red river, Purple eyes, Ayashi no Ceres, etc.... and I did love sexy scenes 😛 ...... ahhhh, how hurtful verbal insults can be 🙄
It is nothing much to worry about, just the different of taste, but at that time, I felt like my friend saw me as a slut with no taste of books at all...... well big trouble haha
I read Kaze Hikaru that time just to prove that I do have taste 🤣 ... how childish. But then, I really fell in love with that series. I love historical genre since then. After that, I love manga which has detail artwork, serious plot, etc.... Watanabe Taeko became one of my favorite mangakas. Later, I also find the shoujo works of Yoshinaga Fumi interesting (oooku, flower of life, all my darling daughters). I no longer seek for happy ending stories anymore, I find the open ending, more realistic, stragic sometimes ..amusing.
But it does not mean that i do not seek for "sexy scenes" anymore 😀 . And it is funny that the old friend of mine who had a taste of serious mangas 😛 now loves all that yaoi I recommend her. How nice.

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I tend to skip through and gather from what I see with manga.

Books tho, I read through.

that happened only with 4 mangas:
hime 100%
sanctuary
nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
testarotho

I actually skiped some volumes of these, not because I didn´t have them. In hime I skiped volumes 2-4 and just readed last chapter, in sanctuary volumes 4-6, but looked at pictures, nausicaa was all only pictures for me and in testarotho skiped vol. 3-4, readed last chapter.

When I read Yuki Kaori´s manga I had urge to skip the dialoges, so long, but I like her mangas so I endured it. and they were actually important. lol

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I skip when it's not interesting enough, to the point that sometimes I hardly completely read all the text in manga. If it's good enough, I read word for word. With books it varies, if it's something I have to study, yes, if not, I just speed read.

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I skipped the mahjong details in Akagi, the more complicated recipes in What Did You Eat Yesterday?, some of the longer play synopses in Glass Mask, and most of the tennis commentary in Prince of Tennis.

Whoa...I skipped the exact same things lol. XDD

I mostly only skip the sports commentary in sports manga because no matter how many times I read it I may not understand it until I either see a vid about what's going on or simply read an article dedicated to it. ___;;

And I do skip certain things from other mangas as well but that's the repetitive stuff. D= Like in some shoujos and BL they repeat the first page for some chapters, I'm not sure if this makes sense but I've seen it happen many times; Example: "My name is...I am x years old..." that stuff. XD

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If there's too much text regarding something that
I don't care the smallest piece of crap about,
then I'll just leave it there.