Fiction I read all the way thru & sometimes go back to an interesting/funny/whatever section & re-read it. I often pick up a book I've read just to re-read something.

I read non-fiction differently. Most of my books are non-fiction & around half of the books I borrow from the Library are also non-fiction. Many of my books are reference books & I've never read each & every word, tho I have looked at all the pics, & often studied them in depth because that's why I bought them.

When I first look at a non-fiction book I look at every picture & read all the captions. Sometime I'll then read the whole or part of the book, depending on what it is & why I borrowed/bought it. Some are read from cover to cover.

I do the same for the magazines I buy & borrow.

I can't remember when I learned to read, it might have been before I went to school as I was the first child of a life-long nose-in-book father, & a mother who also read a lot. We didn't get a TV until I was 14, so we all read (apart from my brother who picked up a love of reading in later years)

sandra