A book or a buck?

My problem is that I almost never stop reading a book that I've started. I don't know what it is, but I feel like I can't just stop once it's begun. So most of the time, unless the book is just completely horrible, I'll lose a lot more than two hours.

I know, it's stupid, but most of the time I'm too curious to stop, even if the book is garbage.

Same here - although for me, it happens with films.
If the book is garbage, I switch on the TV 'just to see what's happening' and then switch to some ugly sci-fi monsters, and here goes my 2 hours anyway.

Relative

exactly. same thing here. therefore I always choose very very cautiously and slowly in library When I am in hurry I will rather take one or two "new" books and something familiar and favoured with it, like "Hundred years of solitude" if I am feeling kinda weird, "Catcher in the rye" if I feel childish or "Fathers and Sons" if I am feeling Slavic

with movies, well, it can be like that, but generally I will stop watching movie after one minute if I dislike it. If I happen to watch it for 30 minutes or so even if its garbage I will probably watch till the end.

When I turned 40, I gave myself permission to Not Finish unappealing books. If I'm not enchanted and entranced by the first 50-100 pages, I quit.

There are so many books I want to read, why spend time with books that don't hold my interest.

I don't care about money, but I'm obsessed with time.

I usually know, in the first half dozen pages, whether I am interested in a book. I usually glance through a book before I buy it. If it does not interest me, the book never gets as far as the cashier.

i can always earn more money, but i can never get my time back

Being homeless, I find that there is always more time, but not always more money.