Poll

Before, I was more on the "I won't drop before a certain point" side, now I prefer to skip and finish. Sometimes, I also use the previews available for ebooks, so it happens that I read the preview and don't buy the full book because I'm not interested in continuing it.

It is very, very rare for me to drop a book without finishing it. Even if I'm not enjoying it, I always try to push through it with the hope that it will eventually get better. The only book that I currently have left unfinished is Journey to the Center of the Earth because I was reading it out loud to a group as part of my work placement for college, and I finished the placement before we'd reached the end of the book. By the time I had enough time to devote to finishing (ie. after exams), I couldn't remember much of what was going on, but also had been far enough into the book that I didn't want to restart either.

I also didn't finish Black Beauty when I first tried it because I was reading it when I had a horrible flu, and just couldn't concentrate. I made a point of trying it again a few years later, although I still didn't really love it. I also have no memory at all of the ending of A Wrinkle in Time, although I think I've read the whole thing.

I don't like skipping parts of books, so if I'm going to read it, I'm going to read it fully. I've been pretty lucky I guess, because I haven't really had any books that I've outright hated, but I think that's more because I'm a bit careful about what I choose to read.

I used to be more of a "I'll finish it even if I hate it" kind o' reader because I'd often find people would say things like, "It starts slow but gets so much better..." and, for all I knew, they were right. But now that I've started doing the challenges I've found myself less inclined to read things that don't interest me. No time for that! I try to give books a fair shake but sometimes I can tell by the author's writing style that I'm just not going to like it no matter how much more I read and those are the books that get abandoned.

It depends on if I paid for the book, the genre, why I'm reading it, and how much I'm hating it.

If I'm using a book for a challenge (like this one!) or it's super short, I'll force myself to finish it. If not, I'll decide how much I want to read it and decide from there. I have dropped a book after a chapter because the writing didn't interest me so I'd say I'm very quick to judge.

I uesd to finish the book wether I liked it or not. After a comment by a friend that there are too many good books out there to waste time on a bad one, I now drop it and pick up a good one. The only time I do nit is if it is for this challenge and I can not find an alternate book.

I used to be a must finish every book I start person. But then one day I decided life is too short (and there are too many awesome books out there) to read bad books. Now if it doesn't get me in the first few chapters I give up. Unless I've been given the book free to read for review - then I try and finish.

I find it hard to abandon books in the middle, because I always end up wondering what happens and whether it got any better. Maybe I'm just lucky though, because I also can't remember any books that I outright hated either (the lowest rated on my list currently are 2 stars, and there are very few of those).

I'm in the goodreads challenge, so every book counts. If I read 50 pages and don't finish, the book doesn't count and I wasted my time. Most of the time, the book gets better and I still want to know how it ends. I only have one dnf ever and that was Fifty Shades of Grey. Definitely not my thing!!

I always feel I have to finish the book but find if I'm really not liking it , my mind wanders and have difficulty remembering the book after I have finished it.

I always finish them no matter what but sometimes I will skim over parts that I'm really not interested in and I will try and read it faster to get it done.