I’m the same sometimes. I stop and start and keep checking how many pages to the next chapter and how many chapters left in the book. A part of it is attention span issues and a part of it is anxiety—I’ve reached a part of the book that’s a little too intense and am distracting myself from continuing. But then the action draws me in and I forget to count, at least for the next little while.

It would be interesting to maybe try reading a book without chapters (which I haven’t done in a while) and see if that affects the way I read.