I have trouble reading books. Always have. When I was a kid it
   was kinda easy because I'd lie on my stomach but post-puberty
   I'd get bellyaches doing that. [nothing perverse, I just found
   laying on my stomach gave me heartburn], and I could never find
   a comfortable position to read in that didn't make me sleepy or
   arms ache since then. Sometimes I'll read standing up by a tall
   table. That's the longest periods of time I can read for.
   Everything else makes me sleepy or arms achy. == I have a PDF
   reader on my phone that I use sometimes. I can set it to a
   REALLY fast rate of speed as a challenge to acquire new
   knowledge as quickly as possible. I'm really good at speed
   reading. I use it with physical books as well as online books: I
   glance at the chapter titles. Go back to the index if any and
   glance through it. Then I flip randomly through the book, noting
   bold face, larger font, pictures. I stop and read a passage or
   two that seems to grab my eye. Then I put it back. Since most of
   what's in books is fluff-filler, it's easy. It even works with
   technical books that are thick because they're usually also very
   well organized and I use that to cheat... I mean, read quickly.
   == Oh I don't touch the originals. Never read Nietzche. But I'll
   read other people's summaries, comparisons and such. Here's how
   I look at it: somebody ELSE can go through the work of reading
   slowly and carefully. THEY can summarize _for me_. I'll take
   their summaries, compare them to OTHER people's summaries from
   other perspectives (find those that love, those that hate and
   those that are relatively neutral or try to be. Then, I don't
   have to read the originals ever. Cheating? Yup. Works too. == I
   rarely watch movies either unless I really want to. I look for
   enthusiasts to tell me all about it. Example: Never read Hunger
   Games or saw the movies. Yet, I know the stories, enough to have
   an educated conversation with someone who loved them. I ran a
   Hunger Games map on my Minecraft server (when I had it) a couple
   of years ago because of this too. How? I found a super-fan. I
   asked him to tell me all about it 'cause he read them 4 times.
   After begging me to read it for myself, I convinced him that I
   never would and HE was the ONLY chance I'd have to ever get a
   good reading of it. His summary was hugely helpful to me. I also
   notice cultural cues, memes and stuff. Pretty much, I do
   everything *but* read the book / watch the movie. =