I do ready every book from the sames series, but I don’t read as fast anymore. When i was younger, if i liked a book, I would stay up until 3 in the morning or until i fell asleep bc i couldn’t put the book down. Now I just read until 11pm and then go to sleep and start reading again the next evening.

It depends. But yeah I usually don’t read an entire series at once, so read something else in-between entries.

I prefer to read the books in a series as close together as possible, so that I don’t forget plot points.

I read more than one book at a time, my sweet spot is 2-4. If I want a change of style, I just grab one of the other books I’m currently reading.

It truly depends on the series. I can only read one book at a time (my brain just can’t keep track of the plots if I’m reading more than one, it’s painful) so that makes things slower but if it’s a series I’m really loving, I’ll binge the entire thing in a few days. Some other series will be interesting at first but then grow more and more tedious for one reason or another. My latest series I read (Three Dark Crowns reread), I completed in a week. I highly recommend. ☺️

I spread the series a little. Usually reading one or two books in between instalments, especially if its a long series. I don’t want all the books to blend into one lump. I even space out authors.

I always like to read at least one other book in between each book in a series.

I think that this is, at least partly, to do with the pressure on writers to try to do trilogies out of everything these days. A planned trilogy will have a story arc where there is a climax in each book as well as building towards a climax for the whole series. And, IDK, when I have just reached the climactic end of one book, diving straight into the “slow bit” in the next one just feels - anticlimactic, I guess. I suspect something that wasn’t originally planned to be a series or a trilogy may be different, but what do I know…

In practice, I tend to interleave two - sometimes three - series (or “universes”) at a time; When I finish a book in one series, I pick up the next book in the other series. I like to make systems :D Incidentally, I also tend to get bored if I read books in the same genre back to back so I tend to have series in different genres.

Right now, I am interleaving

• Salvation trilogy (SciFi, trilogy)
• Rivers of London (urban fantasy, series)
• The Saga of Recluce (high (?) fantasy, universe)

Depends on the length of the series. I’m good for about 6-8 novels. Most lengthy series start fading after that, imo…if not sooner. But I also tend to filter out stories with more than 8 novels too.

But if everything is going good, I’ll read them one after another until the end.

depends on series, length of the books and length of the series. if its a 3 book series and books are a little over 300 pages. takes one month for me to finish

I read very similar to what you describe you do. I also used to inhale book series as a teenager but nowadays like to space them out more. I mostly do this as I otherwise blend books together in my head, and I can’t remember which I liked more or less. I’ll very rarely continue reading the next book in a series right away. Even if I’m loving the series.

If it’s a series I really enjoy, I don’t want it to end (I’m kinda going through that right now as I’m on book 4 of Caro’s LBJ books). So I usually read 2 or 3 books in-between the volumes. I did the same with The First Law Trilogy (by Joe Abercrombie) and with The Sound of the Wind I just stopped.

Like others said, it depends. I read the (original) Mistborn series in about 48 hours. I couldn’t put them down. It took me almost 2 years to read the next set of books (4 in the set). Even the same author causes changes in reading speed

I usually prefer to read back to back, but these days it’s often not realistic to to having other stuff to read library hold times. If I’m working on a series, I try to read at least one book in the series per week. Right now I’m working on the Recluce series and reading 1-4 of them per week depending what other books I have in at the library.

I read multiple books at a time, usually. If one gets stale or I get frustrated with it, I have another to go to. They are usually different genres so there is no confusing them and I get a bit of a refresher for pacing and narrative. For instance, I was reading Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf), Borne (also by Vandermeer), and I am picking away at Brother’s Karamazov (Dostoevsky). There is no mixing those up and they are vastly different lol. Then, I randomly decided I HAD to read What Moves the Dead (Kingfisher) and finished that in a day! If the second was out, I would have immediately read it as well. It really depends. Are we talking the Wheel of Time? Because I had to tap out at book three or something and give myself a break! Then again, I devoured The Winternight Trilogy (Arden) in one go.

I do the same. I usually will try to switch up the book eras or themes before going straight into the next book in a series.

It depends. I also used to devour series when I was younger, but slowed down a lot as I grew older.

Sometimes I do get into a devour mindset if I’m totally enraptured by the world. Earlier this year I read the 10 book Kate Daniels urban fantasy series in about a month. This past week, I read the 5 book The Others urban fantasy series in a week. I did a Red Rising re-read last month and read the first trilogy in a week.

If I really enjoy the world, I’ll read a series all in one, but I tend to read other books at the same time in different formats and that breaks things up a bit.