When I was a kid, I'd skip school to read. I might read from the moment I told my mother I wasn't going until dinner time, without stopping for lunch, and then continue to read well into the night. So... about 18 hours? I don't have the time to read like that any more, unfortunately. Now I have "responsibilities." Ick. lol

When the final Harry Potter book came out I had several marathon sessions that weekend to finish it. It helped that my boyfriend was sick in bed anyway!

Days! Sometimes I get a weekend away from family obligations and all I want to do is read. I'll gobble the books as fast as I can. But usually, I read about 2 hours a day. That's all the time I have in a normal day, and those two hours are at night after my daughter is in bed.

I don't tend to read for really long periods anymore, but i can also finish most novels in 5 hours of undisturbed reading. I did recently read three novels in one day, but that's high for me.

the last marathon i did was when Book 4 of the harry potter series came out. I sat down and read all 4 every minute that i could. It ended up being a few days. Then of course when the following books came out, I read those til I was done.
It was the same with me when i was a child, I couldn't stop reading. I would spend the whole weekend in my bed, which was a loft bed up by the window and read my Class Reader all day. I would read a whole book in one day. My mom even made a comment about it that I was reading to much! as if!! LOL.
The library was Heaven on Earth. I could go through stacks easy.
Luckily, my kids also have a healthy appetite for reading. Nothing makes a mom happier than her kids crying because they can't read before they go to bed..........well, you know what i mean! ")

I sometimes do this. it depends on the book, and what I have to do. I tend to agree though, every now and then I need to just spend an entire day reading. It cleans out my head somehow.

I frequently spend entire weekends, when I have nothing else pressing on my schedule, reading, only taking breaks to eat or sleep or maybe shower, and coffee, lots and lots of coffee.

Now that I've retired from my previous employee, I can admit to haven taken sick days to read. A sickness? Well yeah, I couldn't help it, and much like teen boys will stay in bed late playing with themselves, my incessant reading of a good book borders on addiction. Maybe this is why I usually gravitate to short stories lately?