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When do you stop reading? Is it your hands go limp and your eyes can’t stay open and you wake up with the book in bed with you or do you have to stop at the end of a chapter.

Do you have to go back and read a few pages when you start again?

Haha! I bought myself a reading lamp that has a timer on it for all of the reasons you specify. Is that working out? Most of the time. It has 3 settings for 20 minutes each. I take my meds and set it for 40 minutes. A lot of the time, I know I am ready to fall asleep and just put the book down and turn the light off. However, there are equal amounts of times when I wake up in the middle of the night (the light is off, of course) with my glasses on and the books lying on the floor.

As my book is splayed on the floor, I normally have to find where I was at and a good amount of time I have to reread the last 2 pages.

Stop? Lol. I mostly listen to audios these days, and usually listen until I need to do something, or I fall asleep. The audio frequently keeps playing unless I set a timer. If my mom’s bell goes off I usually jump up to check on her without pausing the audio, and I might forget it’s still playing. I sometimes wake up just in time to hear the end of the book. (It’s a good thing I don’t read a lot of books with big twists.) I often end up listening to some parts of a book a couple times. If I like the book, I don’t mind.

Even when I read print books, I usually go back a page or two from where I left off, just to ease back into the world of the book. This is especially helpful with multiple pov books that shift between characters frequently. Especially on audio.

With audio, I go back to the last spot I bookmarked, or to the beginning of the last chapter I remember reading, or to the last % I saw. It depends on what is most visible on the app’s display. I go back a little farther than needed, but I can speed up the playback to quickly find my spot.

Some of apps record how long the book played. Last week when I was sick, I couldn’t stay awake, even when the volume was fairly loud. According to the app, my “total reading time� for a book was 20 hours, when it was actually only 7 hours. The Libby app thinks I’m a very very slow reader.

Joanne wrote: "Haha! I bought myself a reading lamp that has a timer on it for all of the reasons you specify. Is that working out? Most of the time. It has 3 settings for 20 minutes each. I take my meds and set ..."

Haha. I hate when that happens. I stepped on my glasses once.

I never actually fall asleep while reading, watching TV, etc. My husband does, all the time. But when I'm getting sleepy I'll stop and sometimes the next day, I'll realize I don't remember the last page or two. I usually stop at the end of a chapter. But some books don't have regular chapters, or they are super long. I don't usually have to look back at the previous part, except if I just started a book and only got a chapter or two in, I might go back to review.

I often dream about books I have been reading, either that I am in the book or I am watching the action of the book. This is one reason I don't read really dark or scary books right before bed!

I stop reading when I need to do something else. I rarely do audio which I think I would more likely fall asleep to and get distracted and not take everything in that I want to.
I used to fall asleep while reading, but rarely do anymore. I generally stop reading if I feel tired or like last night when I could have read until the book was finished did the wiser thing and went to bed.
Like Joanne, I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night and will pick up a book and read it.

And like Robin, I often dream about books.

I stop when I need to stop. But I also am a night owl and tend to insomnia. I never fall asleep reading, never have.

If I’m reading in bed (either in print or audio on my phone), I stop when I get jerked awake by the clonk as the phone hits the floor. I use a timer on audio stuff. But even so.

I’m a lot more deliberate when I’m not in bed. End of chapter, or visual break in that chapter . And woe betide anyone who interrupts me before I have finished it.

I have fallen asleep while reading, usually sitting up so it's a rude awakening, but most of the time I try to wrap up my reading by a reasonable hour.

Physically reading: I don't fall asleep reading. I have had to walk around while reading to stay awake to finish a chapter. I almost 100% of the time I stop reading at the end of a chapter.

Audiobook: I set a timer and listen to a book as I fall asleep every night. I will stop an audiobook at any time, but if it's paused long enough, it will back up and you will listen to enough to remember where you were at before continuing.

I fall asleep watching TV or with audio books but never with a real book. I rarely do audio books because I like real books. I feel my eyelids get heavy and put the book aside. I don't back up when I start over, even if it is months later because my memory clicks in as soon as I start again. I have books I start then put to one side because life at the time makes them too confronting or I'm not in the mood, I can pick up where I left off years later and it is fine. This means there aren't many books I enjoy rereading.

I admire your memory, Jen!

I rarely fall asleep reading a physical book. If I feel tired, I get to the end of a chapter and set it aside. Same with e-books.

Like you, Jason, I fall asleep listening to an audiobook. I set the timer, so I don't have to back up too far to hear what I missed.

I have insomnia most nights, and have for years, so I sometimes use the audiobook to fall back asleep. Other times, I read a physical or e-book until I'm tired again. One reason I finish so many books so quickly is that I have insomnia, so I often get a third to half-way through a book in the middle of the night. I don't recommend it, however.

I have used audiobooks to fall asleep to when I am ill and need distraction, but otherwise I don't. I am very sensitive to noise at night. I have been known to take the batteries out of a clock at a place I am staying because the slight ticking disturbs me. Now I always travel with earplugs.