I did that too
I have wanted to read it again ever since, but lent my copy and haven't replaced it.
( Enigmatic ™                 Voice No More                  ©, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:40, archived)

I've only done it with a few books
1984
l'etranger
portrait of dorian grey
Old man and the sea
to kill a mockingbird
Candide

All books I will now never lend to anyone after my fight to get candide back
( lemony, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:45, archived)

oh...

and the harry potter books
( lemony, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:46, archived)

yes, I did it with a heap of books as a kid
Arthur Ransome books, Enid Blyton, and HG Wells (I read The Time Machine all the way through in one day at the age of 7 - I had a weird childhood)
( Enigmatic ™                 Voice No More                  ©, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:50, archived)

ahhh... I'm not counting anything I read before the age of 18
as that would make the figure vastly larger
( lemony, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:51, archived)

fair point
I had forgotten till you reminded me of my avaricous reading
( Enigmatic ™                 Voice No More                  ©, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 1:03, archived)

I used to do it all the time as a nipper
it's clearly where my insomnia started.
( wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:52, archived)

To be honest
if it's under 300 pages, and I've got the time, I'll pretty much always read the whole thing...only problem is, you can't really remember much of the plot that way.
( wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:53, archived)