I love David Mitchell, though the Bone Clocks doesn't come close to Ghostwritten, Cloud Atlas and The thousand autumns for me. I liked it better than Number 9 Dream though.

It just felt a little less focused and the fantasy-elements where a tad too much for my taste. But all in all, Holly, Crispin and Hugo where great characters and the last part was so bittersweet, it gutted me. So all in all still great novel.

Ghostwritten pulled me through a very dark time in my life, I listened to the audiobook every night when I couldn't sleep because my mind was spiraling. When I finished I restarted the next day. So aside from being better in a literary and technical sense in my opinion, Ghostwritten will always hold a very special place in my heart.

Like any unwanted habit, all you really can do is to re-train yourself. Read slow on purpose, if you catch yourself skimming, start over. Maybe it's possible to condition yourself (rewards for not skimming etc.), but I don't know.

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I start to do it, when I'm either bored or the exact opposite, hyped for what's coming. I don't mind the bored skimming. Because of the other case I really started to like audiobooks, they force me to a certain tempo that's far slower than my normal reading speed and it's impossible to skim ahead.